Thread: Comcast Portland QAM channels

Quote: Originally Posted by GabeBillings II read Paul's post above which gave me hope, but the electronics work he was going through sounded over my head. I too was wondering how people with out my 40 years of electronics experience would do. I was only forced into soldering because of a defective UIRT. I made my own dual blinker because I am cheap. Quote: Originally Posted by GabeBillings I'm about ready to wash my hands of...

I stand corrected. I did lose MyNetworkTV in HD. Also, it seems like the Silicondust site posts our scans within a minute. And it lists the channels numbers with channel callsigns...for those of you with a HDHR and have to remap your channels again in BTV. I did my remap within 10 mins.

By DTA do you mean the little boxes Digital to Analog converter boxes that Crapcast provided after the changeover from NTSC to ATCS/QAM? Would a splitter to two of these and a combiner work into a 2250? How would the tuning work? Kind of unclear on this.

I actually went and downloaded Boxee yesterday and started messing around with it. I think I'm in trouble because it looks like there are some shows my wife likes to watch that just aren't available anywhere. No one is making torrents because they aren't really mainstream shows, and they're not available via the web. I'm gonna try to get some DTAs and an USB-UIRT and see if I can get that up and running.

Here in Olympia Wa I get all the local channels plus many more from my QAM setup in digital on a 2250. However, I get zero non-local in HD and only some local in HD. In order to get more local HD I set up over the air digital on my 1600 yesterday. I really hope that cable cards make things better. I really hope Comcast doesn't go out or their way to screw it up for PC customers this time.

Add Comcast in the Seattle region to the list of divisions that have encrypted their digital signals.