Been finding a little difficulty getting help on avsforums, so...
My understanding is you can LEGALLY get free TV from cable services, if they send signals "in the clear" i.e., not encrypted. Usually, this boils down to just local stations (the FCC DOES NOT allow them to encrypt OTA channels like from local NBC affiliates). My TV has a tuner, but it's not doing it. I bought and returned a Samsung tuner from circuit city, and that also failed to do the job.
I've tried scanning for cable with the STD, IRC, and HRC options selected. I only have one plug on the back marked for "cable." My digital/analog tuner for OTA works perfectly fine. The thing is somewhere I ran across someone who CLAIMED you had to have a separate digital cable plug from the back of the set for QAM to work, otherwise, all you're using is the normal analog tuner.
I've confirmed from another poster in my area (Charlotte, NC) that Time-Warner doesn't encrypt the local channels, so unless it's something I'm doing wrong with using the TV, then it would be... something else. I dunno, since I tried a popular tuner which also picked up nothing.
Really, I just want to be able to try watching the Bionic Woman, Smallville, and Big Brother (next year since it's already over for the summer) since my reception for those three networks is awful in my part of town.
So... help?
My understanding is you can LEGALLY get free TV from cable services, if they send signals "in the clear" i.e., not encrypted. Usually, this boils down to just local stations (the FCC DOES NOT allow them to encrypt OTA channels like from local NBC affiliates). My TV has a tuner, but it's not doing it. I bought and returned a Samsung tuner from circuit city, and that also failed to do the job.
I've tried scanning for cable with the STD, IRC, and HRC options selected. I only have one plug on the back marked for "cable." My digital/analog tuner for OTA works perfectly fine. The thing is somewhere I ran across someone who CLAIMED you had to have a separate digital cable plug from the back of the set for QAM to work, otherwise, all you're using is the normal analog tuner.
I've confirmed from another poster in my area (Charlotte, NC) that Time-Warner doesn't encrypt the local channels, so unless it's something I'm doing wrong with using the TV, then it would be... something else. I dunno, since I tried a popular tuner which also picked up nothing.
Really, I just want to be able to try watching the Bionic Woman, Smallville, and Big Brother (next year since it's already over for the summer) since my reception for those three networks is awful in my part of town.
So... help?
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