 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Jack my price up I bet if they jacked cablecard service fee to what cable box rental fee is, ALL these cablecard issues would mysterously vanish.
theres LOTS of GREEN in them thar' cableboxes.
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| Signal Quality Cable Card are so finicky with the signal quality. They will absolutely not work with out perfect signal. Even thou a Dct will work on the line with less than perfect signal.
Having Self Install kits (sik) for cable cards will be worse than SIK for Hsi. We call them repeat in a box. The average Joe thinks to add an additional outlet just spit the line and then to add another one split it again (daisy chain). Then they add an amp to improve pic quality on last tv. With using equipment they bought at Rat Shack or walmart. Now he decides to get a new tv with a qam tuner. Picks up a CableCard and wonders why it doesn't work.
Also take a look at all tvs with cable cards. They all have firmware updates. When you look to see what it fixes they all say cable card issues.
Now lets blame the cable company for tv manufactures firmware and the in house wiring. You can blame them for not fixing the wiring problem.
I never had a cable card not work because a Comcast problem.
I fix the wiring so all thats left is the sub to upgrade their firmware. When they do and call me back it all ways works first try. |
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| reply to dabulls 44
Re: Signal Quality One correction, the cablecard doesn't care about signal quality, (it doesn't have a tuner) it cares about data integrity. TV manufactures use a wide range of tuners that aren't always as "open" to varying signal levels as settops. Thus they regularly have issues passing good data to the card. |
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