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Posted by Derek Janssen on 06/03/07 18:08
Jordan wrote:
> On Jun 1, 1:31 pm, Derek Janssen <eja...@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>--SO--
>>Question: If I see a letterboxed PBS documentary with that fancy "This
>>show is filmed in Hi-Def" intro, or I see Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien on a
>>big cavernous widescreen studio on NBC--both over normal
>>basic-cable--*and* I have a tuner-ready set kicked in, may I assume I'd
>>be watching those as nature intended?
>
>
> Rule #1 - Don't assume anything. :^)
>
> I have an HDTV and an HD DVR box. The DVR is connected to my Comcast
> cable as well as an antenna. When I tell it to look for channels it
> scans both the antenna and the cable.
>
> It turns out that Comcast is feeding HD channels even over basic
> cable. For example:
(Comcast, that's what we've got in our area--
And just *try* fighting off their efforts to sell you the digital
on-demand package, so no help asking them about basic-HD.)
> My local PBS channel is 10. The HD PBS channel is 10.1 and then
> there's a special PBS "Create" channel on 10.2. They also just added
> some kind of local government channel on 10.3.
> Most HD televisions have an "info" button to tell you what resolution
> the channel you're watching is being fed in. If it says 480i or 480p
> then you aren't in HD land.
Which (hopefully built-in) tuner would I be looking for WITHOUT the
HD-DVR box?
Up till now, I've always fed my standard-cable signals in through the
cable-ready VCR (which's why I've never gone for standard-DVR either),
as I like to skip the monthly box shakedown.
Derek Janssen (and if it seems like I'm stretching this out, remember,
one more on-topic post is one less by You-Know-Which-Jerk)
ejanss@comcast.net
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