[Cialug] Media Center...

[jrnosee]

>
> I was wondering about using the HD Homerun with Cable. ..  I can tune in
> the HD channels in a certain range, but they don't seem to be published in
> the usual guide information.  Do you have to transpose the information
> somehow?  I don't have "digital cable".  Just extended basic so I can tune
> the free HD channels but I wrote my own channel guide to do it and then tune
> them manually.  I don't think Windows media center found the "free" HD
> channels either.
>

Well, there's no "free" HD channels other than the OTA ones they
re-broadcast (at least I'm not aware of them).  Somewhere in the 50's and
80's and a few much higher, there are some digital channels.  They're not
HD, they're simply digital re-broadcasts of Mediacom's SD offerings.
They're not posted to ANY guide out there so you have to figure out which
non-digital channel they would map to and configure your guide downloads
accordingly.  The silicone dust website is a great helper for this as they
list all the channels they're tuners run across in an area.  Windows Media
Center will find the channels, but won't enable them without guide data.
You have to go in and set them up manually (map guide data from the
corresponding channel).  Once you enable them (w/o guide or add guide data
as this should automatically enable it) they'll show up in the guide and you
can watch all your expanded basic channels in digital!

One question that's always bugged me.  If they can transmit a channel, say
Syfy (stupid rename) in analog SD and digital SD unencrypted, why can't they
just transmit the digital HD unencrypted too?!  They say they have free HD
but it's a lie.  You have to pay for a box from them, or buy HD tivo and
rent cablecards.
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