Andy,
I know how you feel, this is a topic that baffles many of us, at least
me.
Lee has a setup that he can take over NASA anytime he wants and if you
can search the archives he has addressed your question fairly well.
Implementing them will be another story.
Yes to get all the channels you will have to get Insight's box, not a
good solution especially if there is a lack of room to set the thing
such as in the laundry or kitchen. Yes they get you coming and going
on the pricing of each box unless you can understand how to do what
Lee has done.
The cards have gone away, what a great idea they were but you still
would have to pay the $15.00 per month for them to program the card
for the package you purchased, you would lose the unsightly box however.
John
On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Andy Arnold wrote:
Any cable TV experts in the group?
I can't figure this whole racket out... I have a couple HD TVs with
built-in tuners... Insight wants $15 per month for their DVR which
is supposed to carry many more HD channels than if I plug the cable
wire directly into the HD TV. But this is a crude solution for many
reasons (one of which is that you can't sync the boxes) Plus I don't
watch that much TV, so $30 a month just for the box is crazy. I had
heard that some TVs can contain a cable decoder card that will allow
the signal from all of Insight's channels to come thru in HD. But
now most manufacturers have abandoned that strategy because all TVs
have a digital tuner built-in and if your cable company is
outputting unscrambled channels then you can tune all the stations
through the TV without a cable box or CableCard. Is the problem that
Insight is behind the national curve and still scrambling most of
their stations? Stop the madness! Would love to hear what others are
doing about all of this...
BTW, this is still a Mac topic because I have an AppleTV thrown into
the mix as well :-)
thanks
Andy
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