On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 14:31, Derek Meek wrote: > There is a lot of noise on my cable line already - I have a booster on > the fork that leads to my TV (other fork goes the cablemodem) - I don't > think i want to split it again too much. >
If the cable company is providing piss poor signal you can try what I did a couple of years ago. Was getting lost of snow and static in the evenings. After several weeks of phone calls and no results I did the following. I used a VCR to record an hour of so of the snow and static I was getting in the evenings. I then found the names and addresses of the local service manager, customer service manager, and the manager of the cable company. I then sent a copy of the tape to each with a letter telling them that if they did not get this corrected in the next week to disconnect the service. I got a call from the main manager who gave me a different number to call when the picture quality degraded. That week I placed two calls on it and they had someone out that night to work on the problem. They got it cleared up. Since then I have complained a few times since and they have come out and resolved the problem. One time they had a bad crimp on a distribution line that apparently charred the insulation on the cable. They had a huge hole dug in the yard out front to fix that one. > I do have one question - if we got digital cable is there a TV card out > there that would decode all of the channels for mythTV? > Nick wrote: > Not that I know of. You typically input the digital cable box to a capture card and use an IR blaster to change channels on the cable box. Personally I just use the analog signals they send over the cable line. I canceled all the pay channels many months ago. Prefer to get the DVDs for those movies I want to watch instead of all the repeats the pay channels seem to have.
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