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BuyDig.com has the SiliconDust HDHomeRun Network-based Dual Digital HDTV Tuner Ethernet Interface for $135 with free shipping. This dual tuner solution plugs into your network and lets you receive both over the air and unencrypted content from your cable company.
is there such thing as unencrypted content from your cable company?
My cable provider won't even let you get the local HD channels without their stupid box, even though they could. If you have their box, they collect rent for it and you might buy their overpriced pay per views.
After having a box about a year, they sent me a letter saying it would automatically shut down in a week because it had malfunctioned and I would need to bring it to their office for a replacement. Turned out the "malfunction" was that I had never bought a pay per view and they thought it was not reporting correctly! Stupid bastards.
If I didn't live in a broadcast shadow in the mountains, my service would've been canceled long ago.
Will this box allow you to watch encryopted signals from Comcast? I already have several of their boxes, don't want to rent any more if I can avoid it.
how about watching encrypted signals from Disk Network?
#2. Did you do a channel scan of your cable signals? I have found Time Warner lets through 5 local channels in HD. None of the program information is available nor even any way to identify the station. I do that by comparing (using split screen) the box output.
They do move the stations around now and then and I have to do another scan. Of course the scan picks up about 100 music "channels" and a lot of blank channels.
Also, sometmes it will find channel 1-1 is local ABC, then press ^ and it still says 1-1 but it is local CBS, ^ again and is shows 1-2 as local FOX.
Hope this helps.
I have comcast, and my TV gets the HD channels directly. I probably get about 9 unencrypted channels when hooking the cable directly to my TV. These are the same channels homerun can see. If you can't see it on an HDTV connected directly to the cable, after doing a re-scan, then homerun will not be able to see it from your cable.