In order to receive those channels, you will need to get a cable card and a subscription from your cable provider.
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New Sony 34XBR960 Tuner question
This is my issue, just purchased a new 34XBR960 and hooked it up to my basic cable service and an OTA antenna for HD. When I did the initial set up scan it located a bunch of digital channels which was an added bonus. When I channel surf up through the channels I get a ton of no signals and then every once in a while it looks like I lock on to HBO or some other movie channel, but it is sporadic, usually not the same channels all the time and sometimes the channel stays on until the end of the program and then goes blank with no signal or sometimes it stays on for a few minutes and if I try to go back nothing is there. Very weird, just curious is this is my cable company issue or what? Again all I have with my cable service is basic, no premium channels or anything. Thanks and hope this is the right forum?
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That was my thought but it threw me that they come in and out...didn't know if it was something to do with unscrambled QAM channels or something?
Yeah.. Alot of the digital channels (at least for me.. TWC in Milwaukee) were unscrambled, so the QAM tuner picked them up. Included in those were a bunch of PBS channels and all of the PPV Preview channels. Oh, and don't forget about the HD locals. On my initial scan I also receieved in upwards of 200 digital channels. I got excited here, thinking that they were all unscrambled. The tuner knows that a channel is digital, but receives a "No signal" if it can't display it in the clear. About you sporadically getting some channels, I'd say it's just dumb luck that your QAM tuner picks them up.
Get a cablecard and spend ~$25 more and you'll get all of those channels all of the time.
Get a cablecard and spend ~$25 more and you'll get all of those channels all of the time.
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