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Originally Posted by jedlinde
I just got off the phone with Comcast, and I'm somewhat frustrated: I have two analog TVs, have the conversion boxes (provided by Comcast for free) installed, they work fine and I get a whole host of stations, that I cannot get on my digital TV and digital VCR/DVD. Comcast (in CA) informs me that I will have to use one of their boxes on my digital devices...why? They would not give me an answer, the tele-service-guy just kept repeating that their box must used. Sadly, if true, you can only record on the channel that the box is on (and you cannot watch any other channel). Any info out there?
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That's the tricky part of the so-called QAM tuners built into some TVs. Sure they'll let your TV pick up some local stations in
HD from your cable provider, but to view any digital services from your cable company, you need to rent a box from them. Otherwise your just watching an analog signal on basic cable. The only REAL thing a digital TV or
HDTV tuner does, is receive over-the-air signals from broadcast towers. Other than that, you could have basically bought a "digital ready"
HDTV with an analog tuner and just used the cable company's converter to watch
HD programming.
