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[COX] Digital/Cable TV-Cox?

have you tried rescanning?

If you switch the card back to the analog option you should receive the same channels you had before.

reply to dfrandin
what channel? cox probaly has it encrypted per channel owner request

Obviously, the channel is encrypted. Otherwise, why would you have to order digital cable in the first place? Only way to view the channels without a box from Cox would be to buy some device with a cablecard slot. Think Tivo, Ceton, or Silicondust. There is no way to install a cablecard on a Hauppauge HVR1250. Usually, the cablecard itself is rented for around a few dollars a month from your cable company.

reply to ilikeme
You should still be able to get the analog channels as well, until they're turned off (which might be some time this year). Set the computer back to analog mode and you should be getting channels again, as a previous poster said.

reply to btB
OP here: I was afraid of that.. Tried rescanning, just snow.. Apparently when you change to digital cable, they somehow remove the analog signal that we'd been getting previously. Oh well, just another reason why I'm going to be VERY upset with the wife for switching us. Apparently a Cox contractor came by last month with some "deal" on digital tv. Since I wasn't home, my b.s. detector was not able to sniff this "deal". But of course, wifey jumped right in, since those three little letters "H B O" were included. When the new fancy cablebox and wayyyy too complicated remote control showed up, I asked her what this was going to cost per month. She said that Cox had a special deal going where HBO was free for 3 months and somesuch b.s. AND that the monthly rate would only be $15 more than we were paying previously with basic/analog, preferred internet ($110/mo total). Just got the first bill.. $175/mo... Plus HBO was listed in the itemization at $15/mo. Had I been home when this Cox contractor came by this would never have happened. Guess Cox is getting desperate in getting us old farts off the old analog system.

Guess I'll be yanking the tuner card out of the computer since its apparently useless anymore....

The analog signal cannot be turned off without disconnecting the cable entirely. I think there's something inside the home causing the issue you're experiencing. Do any of your analog only TV's have problems?

I'll check.. We only have hooked up currently the main tv that the wife watches with the settop box, and my tuner card in the pc. There is another tv in the bedroom that hasnt been used in quite a while, I'll fire it up and see if it still sees the old analog channels..

Thanks

I looked into that a while a go. You probably need to set the card to ntsc for analog.

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reply to dfrandin
again I'll ask what channel is it?

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reply to dfrandin
Some time ago I asked Cox support about getting the digital signal on a device other than the rented set-top box. I figured that after a certain number of months, the device would pay for itself in rent saved (but I still have not gotten one).

The gist was that there are other receiver devices than the ones Cox leases, but Cox has to 'activate' the device on its network. Of course, the device would have to be compatible with Cox' network. I believe the Cox' Scientific Atlanta Explorer set-top box we rent works like a cable modem--I saw a settings page and copied down a MAC (EMAC) address and an RF IP address, so I think of it as a computer specialized for video, and I think that the activation process is needed so the data can be addressed to it.

The Cox channel lineup for this area has in the footnotes, "except TV sets with a Clear-QAM digital tuner will receive local broadcast channels without equipment rental". Maybe a TV tuner card with Clear-QAM still has to be activated even just for local channels?

reply to dfrandin
my setup is I have 3 computers I use to watch TV. I use a cable card in each @ $1.99 a month so its less than one settop box. I have 2 of the ATI external units and I ceton 4 tuner internal card. I get everying thing that the set top box on the main TV gets.
I use the Windows Media Center to accomplish this.

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reply to AlienDjinn
cox only need the serial numbers of the cable boxes while the need more info for cable card devices like tv or tivo.

reply to JWNelson