QAM Tuner HD Channel Access
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chester
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Toshiba too?
I just ran into the same problem with a friend who bought a Toshiba 19AV600U.
He also has other HDTVs that pick up Clear QAM channels over our local Cox system, but can't get the Toshiba to tune them in.
I've tried to talk him through it on the phone, but we're getting nowhere.
Here's a thought... maybe they're all looking in the wrong place.
Cox has their all of their HD channels located in low 80s. I assume that other systems do too, since those channels are rarely used.
I've gotten most TVs to re-map them to a familiar channel number with a 'tuner memory/channel scan' through the menu.
I've also found them by just hunting through those areas with channel up & down. Sometimes they remap... sometimes you just have to enter the seemingly bizarre channel # like 82.4926, its true frequency on the cable system.
God, I HATE cable!
He also has other HDTVs that pick up Clear QAM channels over our local Cox system, but can't get the Toshiba to tune them in.
I've tried to talk him through it on the phone, but we're getting nowhere.
Here's a thought... maybe they're all looking in the wrong place.
Cox has their all of their HD channels located in low 80s. I assume that other systems do too, since those channels are rarely used.
I've gotten most TVs to re-map them to a familiar channel number with a 'tuner memory/channel scan' through the menu.
I've also found them by just hunting through those areas with channel up & down. Sometimes they remap... sometimes you just have to enter the seemingly bizarre channel # like 82.4926, its true frequency on the cable system.
God, I HATE cable!
"No mater where you go... there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai
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eliwhitney
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Hi Chester -
Do also reserve just a "wee' portion of your dislike of Cable Service for the possibility that your friend's particular set selection IS the problem ?
Most of these 19" and / or smaller "HD" sets are in reality only computer monitors hastily adapted & put together by sub-contractors - NOT the Name Brand House or Corporation whose name appears on the front!
It could simply be the the " innards " or lack thereof are contributing to the aggravation ? These are in the majority of instances very, very poor examples of outstanding HDTV technology.
NO set of these display sizes will ever provide legitimate "HD", either. Lastly, their audio IS absolutely terrible for more than an arm's length away.
eli
Do also reserve just a "wee' portion of your dislike of Cable Service for the possibility that your friend's particular set selection IS the problem ?
Most of these 19" and / or smaller "HD" sets are in reality only computer monitors hastily adapted & put together by sub-contractors - NOT the Name Brand House or Corporation whose name appears on the front!
It could simply be the the " innards " or lack thereof are contributing to the aggravation ? These are in the majority of instances very, very poor examples of outstanding HDTV technology.
NO set of these display sizes will ever provide legitimate "HD", either. Lastly, their audio IS absolutely terrible for more than an arm's length away.
eli
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chester
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Not the 'innards'...
Eli...
It's not the 'innards'... it's the 'bastards'.
I've tuned HD cable channels on this model, using the menu's memory scan, on other, 'less sophisticated', cable systems.
It's the larger cable companies, perverting the PSIP tables & allowing only local channels through via Clear QAM, that confirms their 'evilness' to me.
It's all about getting subscribers to rent their stupid converters, to give the companies more control & more data to sell to the ratings companies.
I'll grant you that the audio is lousy on ANY small TV (and more so on FPTVs), but... 1366 x 768 IS legitimate 720p HD, on any size display.
They ARE evil!
It's not the 'innards'... it's the 'bastards'.
I've tuned HD cable channels on this model, using the menu's memory scan, on other, 'less sophisticated', cable systems.
It's the larger cable companies, perverting the PSIP tables & allowing only local channels through via Clear QAM, that confirms their 'evilness' to me.
It's all about getting subscribers to rent their stupid converters, to give the companies more control & more data to sell to the ratings companies.
I'll grant you that the audio is lousy on ANY small TV (and more so on FPTVs), but... 1366 x 768 IS legitimate 720p HD, on any size display.
They ARE evil!
"No mater where you go... there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai
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QuAM tunners
Jerry Keller writes:
your sony will receive all the clear uncoded channels that Comcast is sending down the same cable that carried your old NTSC analog channels. When you go to the sony menu and find channel search, be sure that you ask it to search on cable only and SELECT scan for both ANALOG and DIGITAL channels. It will then do a long search and will find all the old analog channels as well as the 10 or so digital channels that Comcast is sending down the same cable. You should not connect any cable to the other coax input on the sony. these new digital channels that comcast is sending unencoded are a requirement of the fcc. For any other of the 100 digital channels on your cable, you would have to rent a digital set top box from Comcast.
Good luck
Jerry
your sony will receive all the clear uncoded channels that Comcast is sending down the same cable that carried your old NTSC analog channels. When you go to the sony menu and find channel search, be sure that you ask it to search on cable only and SELECT scan for both ANALOG and DIGITAL channels. It will then do a long search and will find all the old analog channels as well as the 10 or so digital channels that Comcast is sending down the same cable. You should not connect any cable to the other coax input on the sony. these new digital channels that comcast is sending unencoded are a requirement of the fcc. For any other of the 100 digital channels on your cable, you would have to rent a digital set top box from Comcast.
Good luck
Jerry