Re: Media Center and Comcast problems/questions
- From: "Dave" <Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:23:31 -0400
The group for Windows Media questions is
microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter
You should get more help there.
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"Patrick D" <PatrickD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:FDC6375A-08A1-4E8A-9764-1E59E9BC8047@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I LOVE my media centers; I have two of them. One older one with dual analog.
tuners, and one I bought more recently with analog and digital tuner. I LOVE
these machines; unfortunately with Comcast switching over to digital I am
totally unaware of what I should be doing. I don’t not want the IR blaster
(this is why I don't have HDTV or satellite and I am happy not having either
of these). I just want these media centers to be able to listen to the cable
signal. Now it seems that Comcast is still pushing a few analog signals
through as my analog tune iis picking up a handful of channels. I called
Comcast and asked them if they had a converter where my Media Center could
still tune the channels for both analog and digital (i.e. without an IR
blaster) and they said yes. I go their equipment and they were wrong. This
does not work as you have to use the IR blaster.
It seems to me that my media center with the digital tuner should be able to
"tune" "digital" channels. Right now it detects no signal. My guess is that
this is because I haven't asked them to "activate" my digital service (as I
would entirely lose signal on one my media centers).
Question #1: Will my media center with the digital tuner "just work" if I
activate my digital signal with Comcast? Will it tune the channel? Can they
activate it without me plugging in yet another box from them? Please tell me
I don't need to use an IR blaster.
Question #2: For my media center with the analog tuner, can I replace it
with a digital tuner, or is there some dependency on the CPU that is likely
not accounted for in my 2004 series HP media center.
For both of these, will I ever return to dual tuning?
You help is apprecated in advance.
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