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there is also the difference with useing the tv tuner vs a cable or sat box and what out put the cable / sat box is set to.

TVJapan (674) is having a free preview through the 21st. I can get it through ClearQAM (13.6 here in Schaumburg), and on the cable box. The DTA has not been programmed for it.

I also noticed the DTA now tunes Investigation Discovery (ID) on 271.

Hello i wish comcast can add channel 386 mctv to the digital adapter
same why they add channel 271 investigation discovery to its digital
adapter.

They've done it in Chicago Area 2 (and presumably Area 3 as well).  Where are you located, Anthony?

Hello i live in skokie ill

Then I guess it must vary from area to area.  I'm just south of you, unless Lincolnwood is in a separate Comcast district from Skokie (it might be, because back in the old days Lincolnwood and Evanston were served by a different cable company from Skokie).

Maybe you could check comcast.com or ask a Comcast phone rep if you're supposed to be receiving that channel on a DTA.

I've never known a worse Cable Co. than Comcast. I've posted in other threads here about Comcast's total lack of concern for their customers other than taking their money while providing clearly substandard services and abysmal support. I'm not trumpeting U-Verse as much as I'm slamming Comcast.

Long story short, I started having several serious technical issues with Comcast. Their Customer Service is a bad joke and their Tech Support isn't any better. They 'go through the motions' while doing absolutely nothing constructive. I spent nearly 2 years trying to get results before finally contacting my Village and complaining about no meaningful response at all other than empty promises from Comcast. FINALLY got in touch with someone who had "half" a clue at Comcast. Which for Comcast was a monumental improvement. "Relatively" speaking of course. Better than the absolutely NO CLUE people I'd gotten nowhere with for nearly 2 years.

Then over the "next" 14 months after going through my Village who called Comcast on my behalf and no longer dealing with their normal village idiots but someone at Comcast who could tie his own shoe laces without his mothers help? Only 1 out of 9 problems ever got fixed AFTER 14 MONTHS. That's when I finally fired Comcast, It was the most satisfying day I ever got from being a Comcast Customer. I've never looked back with any regrets over firing Comcast with extreme malice. Comcast operates its business like its on a kids bike with broken training wheels and the kid riding it is a quadriplegic. They should be investigated by Congress. But their lobbyists have already taken over them. No wonder nothing ever gets done by them when the fix is already in for them.

I sold my stock in Comcast back in 2004. Even back then my service was only going from bad to worse and I bailed on them before their stocks were worthless.

Highly Satisfied that I'm no longer a Comcast Customer,

Music Nutt

Can someone update me about the current solutions for Multiroom DVR access or whatever they calling it? In other words, I need to be able to access my DVR and watch recorder programs in another room. What would be the simplest and cost effective solution? I've been using their Motorola 3416 DVR for the past 5 years.

We have out of town guests from Tulsa. Does anyone know if the Tulsa vs Houston game that is supposed to be on Fox Sports Net at 11:00 AM Friday is being shown on Comcast? I looked at the listing and didn't see it, but sometimes FSN programs overflow to odd channels. I'm on the Rolling Meadows headend. Thanks.

CSN Chicago web site says OUTER MARKET.
In market Live high school foot ball playoffs.

why not on CSN+ in the past they have show FSN games on it? It's CSN's right to show the FSN stuff. You may get on a FSN channel in the sports pack.

May show up on directv (they have picked CSN Chicago feeds in the past like that)

http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/tv-listings shows the games on CSN + HD 285 and comcast network 101 but not on CLTV


also the HD channels and 100's and up are all the same for ALL AREA headends.

Will Comcast Chicago allow me to activate and use my own cable box? In other words, if I buy an RNG110 from ebay for $50, will I be able to use that to get all the programming I am paying for?

$9 a month seems excessive seeing how cheap they are in the secondary market.

Any box on the secondary market is stolen. Cable boxes are only available thru the cable companies, they are not sold directly to consumers.

I will take that as a "no"

Thanks for the quick response.

Chief: indeed, Owine's answer was a no.  Comcast will not authorize service on any box that is not in their records as being let to you.

The closest you can get to your own cable box is a CableCard device such as a newer Tivo or some computer tuners. You will still not have OnDemand. You also really won't save money, although the cost of the CableCard (and support to getting it work) is all over the place.

that is not true they are all not stolen.

First-sale doctrine

Any ways what if they where dumped?? I herd some one found a WeatherStar XL in a dumpster at old cable head end.

What if some ended up at a electronics recycling place in a legal way? The electronics recycling do sell PC's and other stuff they take in.

boxes from canada are NOT Stolen

also if you pay the un retrued box free then you OWN it just like taking stuff from the hotel room and paying the full bill for that stuff that you took.


the phone CO's used to force you to rent a phone and LAW stopped that.

IT still seems like there is more then 1 case that can be tired in the courts.


The NEW Cable card laws say that you can Use your own set-top box without extra charge. FCC Rule 76.1205(b)(5)(C). Your cable operator may charge you to lease a CableCARD or tuning adapter, but may not charge you an additional service fee for using your own digital-cable-ready television or set-top box.

$9 for box that costs $142 or $4 rent to own??????

http://www.shaw.ca/Television/Equipment/

I think that is what the lady said. It was no less than $8. I just got the box when I made my post, so it has not hit my bill yet. When I saw them so cheap on ebay, I figured I would save some money. I got my cable modem from ebay, and it has worked great for the last 3 years or so.

Read the fine print, paying the unreturned equipment fee does not transfer ownership of the box.

under the law it may also what happens if say a tornado comes by and you box is lost after that and some insurance pays it off and then later some one finds it and it still works then I think the cable co does not own it and or at the very least it may fall under laws that cover parts of dumpster diving.

Wrong.

In the end it doesn't matter: Comcast will not authorize any box that it didn't give to you (apart from CableCard systems).

I just bought a Logitech Revue (Google TV), which can't work with the HDCP security on my Moto DCH3416.

I want to swap it with a newer Moto DCX3400 which does work with the Revue.

Does anyone know if the firewire port is enabled on the DCX3400?

I use the 1394 port to do captures of unscrambled shows to my PC all the time. That is a higher priority for me, than the new toy.

Thanks!

The FireWire port is enabled, but due to firmware problems it's much harder to get a clean capture on a Windows system (it's not as problematic on a Mac). You're far better off staying with the older DCH3416 for FireWire captures.

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I wanted to know. I still have Windows XP on that computer so I can get easy captures. It basically works every time.

I think you meant to post this in the OTA forum.

January 10, 2012...Comcast has given us 30 days notice that analogs 2-14, 16-18, 20-1 and 99...the last of them...wil lbe switched off after 30 years of service. A technician on my block says that after that, all of them will be encrypted....including locals.

This includes DeKalb, Sycamore, Rochelle and Flagg Center.

99 is a joke when you only have a DTA to see what's on in the next 90 minutes. Really wish that DTA had a *real* TVGOS.

Wait, so I won't be able to flip my A/B switch to watch locals in HD?

Any word on when the Chicagoland region will have HD DTA boxes?