[olug] Slightly OT: COX digital channel numbers (mythTV users?)

[Daryl J. Rue]

Cox has a regular cable package for 15 bucks or something that is just 1-27.
So I am guessing they have provisioned to encrypt even the HD of stations
outside of that range.  I think they encrypt everything except what you can
grab for free over the air.  Check it out and let us know. 

Daryl 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Ryan
Stille
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:41 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Slightly OT: COX digital channel numbers (mythTV users?)

Daryl J. Rue wrote:
> You won't be able to get the others as they come across encrypted.  QAM
only
> picks up unencrypted signals.  I noticed sears is outputting an
unencrypted
> OTA signal to all of their HDTV's.  I wonder what they are using to do
that?
> (It would allow you to distribute HD content, ESPN for example to other
TV's
> without HD cable boxes.) 
>
> Daryl 
>   
Are you sure?  I thought only the premiums (HBO, SHO, etc.) are 
encrypted.  Aren't TNT and ESPN just part of the regular cable package?  
If so the HD variants of those channels should be in the clear.  They 
were in Sioux City anyway.

I don't know what the TV showrooms use to distribute HD to their TVs, I 
always assumed it was some device designed just for that purpose.  But 
they could just use a single HD tuner outputted via component cables to 
a splitter/amplifier to distribute to all the TVs.  That would be analog 
though and may have issues with cable lengths, etc.

-Ryan


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