analog signal from digital cable

[speed24get]

Anyone with a digital cable tv service tried connecting the cable directly to the tv? Will it be just like analog signal if you don't use the box. The reason i'm asking this is because i'm getting a digital cable service from charter, but it' s only coming with one digital receiver box. I wana hook up more than one tv to it.

 

[rbV5]

In my area, the tv's not hooked to the digital cable box get the analog cable channels just like you describe.

 

[AnAndAustin]

Depending upon area (and country) what you can recieve from the cable could be anything from nothing (all scrambled) to the free channels / minimum package so it is worth trying out. If you simply want the ability to view the cable channels on a 2nd TV you can simply use a Y-splitter or more ideally a TV signal booster. If you put the splitter at the end of the chain just before it gets sent to the TV (Aeriel -> Cable Box -> VCR -> TV) This will allow the 2nd TV to see whatever is being sent to the first TV including the VCR and whatever cable channel the box has decoded. So you have to use the box to switch channels and the TVs can't watch 2 simultaneous diff images BUT it is cheap, easy and effective. I'm surprised there isn't a sw prog which can decode the channels via the PC, so long as you only decode the channels you're paying for surely it is perfectly legal?

 

[Pauli]

I have Charter cable in Long Beach, CA and it works this way. In fact, I split my Cable Modem connection and plugged one end into my TV card and it works fine -- I get the analog channels up to 100 with my ATI tuner, but not the digital ones.

 

[speed24get]

hey, i live in long beach also (next to signal hill) and was doing the same thing until they placed a filter on my line. Now i need to order cable to get the signal :-(

 

[Packy]

W/ AT&T (in Oregon) if you have digital cable, any set that has the box gets digital, and any set that doesn't just gets expanded basic cable.

 

[Pauli]

Originally posted by: speed24get
hey, i live in long beach also (next to signal hill) and was doing the same thing until they placed a filter on my line. Now i need to order cable to get the signal :-(

Oh, crap, I hope those turds don't do the same thing to me (I live in Belmont Heights). I also have my TV signal split to go directly into the VCR and Digital cable box -- it still seems to work OK. Do you know what the reason was for putting the filter on your line?

 

[speed24get]

Yeah, they put the filter on to prevent people from stealing cable tv. I'm sure by now everyone knows that if you have cable modem, you automatically get cable tv. I guess charter (or other company) finally realized what is happening so they installed a filter to stop that from happening.

 

[Pauli]

Oh, I see, you don't have cable TV service. Those ba$tards. I've got the digital cable TV service, so I guess they won't be putting a filter on my line...