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Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:11 am to jeff5891
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hen a cable company says that your HD channels are free, they are lying to you
An antenna gets you free HD channels
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:15 am to GrammarKnotsi
quote:well yea.
An antenna gets you free HD channels
I'm talking about the advertising point cable companies make. "Free HD" and in small print "must rent a cable box to view these free HD channels"
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 11:16 am
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:30 am to sharkfhin
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But not gonna rent one lol....I see these digital converter boxes everywhere...claims to convert the analog channels into digital like a cable box does....anyone have any experience with these?
But converting from analog to digital isn't going to boost your resolution or clean up the image. What you're looking for is a box to decrypt the cable company's HD signals. That's illegal.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:03 pm to sharkfhin
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So I guess everyone here is saying u can only receive hd on all channels with the cable co's cable box....
Well, that's the law.
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:22 pm to GrammarKnotsi
Na, I just have a ultra hd tv and since I still have channels via having a internet connection, was wondering how can I receive them in hd...was all...I know about locals....many of you miss the whole point but its okay....to those who said im idiot.....frick YOU
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:23 pm to Casty McBoozer
Wasn't aware of that and thanks for ur input...was jus curious
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:29 pm to sharkfhin
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I just have a ultra hd tv
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still have channels via having a internet connection
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how can I receive them in hd
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to those who said im idiot
Really nailed your point here...
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:37 pm to Casty McBoozer
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What you're looking for is a box to decrypt the cable company's HD signals. That's illegal.
he could torrent the shows he wants to watch but thats illegal too... Damn
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:42 pm to jeff5891
Na ,not into illegal...
Posted on 2/25/15 at 6:54 pm to jeff5891
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since each company usually uses their own method to encrypt, you can rent a box from that company that uses specific software to read the encryption. They don't sell boxes that are uploaded with their software to decrypt their signal.
This isn't exactly true. There are two third party boxes capable of decrypting all the cable company's channels IF AND ONLY IF you buy their tuning card. Two isn't perfectly accurate- basically all tivo cable models + Samsung gx-smf530 or something like that. The gx and 530 are correct. Don't quote me on the smf. I'm too lazy to look it up. Anyway, with the rented cablecard (free-$2/mo with most cable companies) will give you access to all the hd content, but you do give up the on demand features which are tied to custom firmware on the cable companies' boxes, as I understand it.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 7:37 pm to Hopeful Doc
That's all correct. I'd add the HD HomeRun Prime gets you three tuners out of one CableCARD and can be used without a computer if your TVs support DTCP-IP and you're willing to put up with DLNA. One Prime as low as $80 or so could service three TVs. Not too shabby.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 7:45 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
Given the nature of the thread and the understanding of how these things are working, I left out the HDHR-Prime and Ceton's offerings in lieu of true set-top boxes.
If anyone reading is willing to learn, these things will work fine, but they're not a perfect "plug and play" solution. A handful of us on here use them, but I admittedly don't use it over DLNA and am lacking in that capacity to a small extent. They work very well in an HTPC setting.
If anyone reading is willing to learn, these things will work fine, but they're not a perfect "plug and play" solution. A handful of us on here use them, but I admittedly don't use it over DLNA and am lacking in that capacity to a small extent. They work very well in an HTPC setting.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 7:48 pm to Hopeful Doc
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This isn't exactly true. There are two third party boxes capable of decrypting all the cable company's channels IF AND ONLY IF you buy their tuning card. Two isn't perfectly accurate- basically all tivo cable models + Samsung gx-smf530 or something like that. The gx and 530 are correct. Don't quote me on the smf. I'm too lazy to look it up. Anyway, with the rented cablecard (free-$2/mo with most cable companies) will give you access to all the hd content, but you do give up the on demand features which are tied to custom firmware on the cable companies' boxes, as I understand it.
Yes, this is correct, but for TiVo you need to rent a CableCARD and you need to pay TiVo subscription fees, which are about $15/month, or like $400 extra (on top of the price of the box) for a lifetime subscription.
So you don't really come out ahead monetarily like that.
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