they are still available from Insight, but the problem is cablecard
ready TVs are becoming scarce. Insight will charge about $2/month to
run the service into the cards so that you don't need the DVR boxes to
decode all the stations. An Insight tech has to install the cablecard.
On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:17 AM, John Stone wrote:
Contrary to what other folks have said the Cable Cards ARE available
from Insight. I'm not sure of the monthly fee. Not many folks take
this option as the cards can be a little finicky, but they work.
John
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Andy Arnold <andyarno...@mac.com>
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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