On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:13:51AM -0700, Todd Ignasiak wrote: > You might want to check a local forum, to see other users' experiences > with your cable system. I've done that a couple of times alread. There is plenty of info for OTA, but virtually none for cable. > Most cable systems leave the local channels > in the clear (I have heard that this is required for them, but I don't > know if that is true). The avsforum.com local reception forum The locals are already available on analog. If they're in the clear on digital, I haven't found them. > If you have a Windows box around, you might try the Fusion card with > the Windows software. They have a decent channel scanner which should > show your QAM256 channels. Well, I hadn't reinstalled Windows since my last disk change, so what the hey. A Windows scan found a handful of digital channels. By the time the scan finished, only one was viewable. It looked like another On-Demand session. One of the detected channels consistently crashed the Fusion application whenever I tried to view it. One thing of note is that under Windows, the one channel I viewed had no visible drop-outs or other errors. Everything I've been able to view off cable so far under Linux has had very noticeable drop-outs, pixelization or other errors. I'm borrowing a UHF antenna tonight so hopefully ATSC will work much better. David -- David Engel gigem@xxxxxxxxxxx
