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Title: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: Meatwad on January 01, 2009, 06:14:04 PM: The cable office offers digital premium channels that we just subscribed to. Would a digital tuner built into the LCD tv's be able top receive these since we are paying for them now, or will you still have to have a cable box for them?
Title: Re: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: Fulmar on January 01, 2009, 06:42:39 PM: You'll need the cable company's cable box to use their interface to change channels etc.
Title: Re: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: REP0MAN on January 01, 2009, 08:07:35 PM: If your LCD TV has a cable card slot, you can get one from your cable company. It will take place of a cable receiver.
Title: Re: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: Newman5 on January 01, 2009, 10:21:51 PM: Quote from: REP0MAN on January 01, 2009, 08:07:35 PM
If your LCD TV has a cable card slot, you can get one from your cable company. It will take place of a cable receiver.

And in either case, you will probably have to pay for either of them, may it be the cable box or the card.
Title: Re: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: Meatwad on January 01, 2009, 11:08:00 PM: No option for a card slot, so I guess I better get a cable box......
Title: Re: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 02, 2009, 09:16:48 AM: You should be able to receive "basic" cable just fine.
Premium channels usually require a box. OR a card slot on your TV.

The one upside Comcast has over Verizon. At least in my area. is they have a much better basic lineup.
Title: Re: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: VonMessa on January 02, 2009, 09:19:59 AM: Quote from: DREDIOCK on January 02, 2009, 09:16:48 AM
You should be able to receive "basic" cable just fine.
Premium channels usually require a box. OR a card slot on your TV.

The one upside Comcast has over Verizon. At least in my area. is they have a much better basic lineup.

Probably the only one, as of late. :noid
Title: Re: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 02, 2009, 10:25:15 AM: Quote from: VonMessa on January 02, 2009, 09:19:59 AM
Probably the only one, as of late. :noid

I dont know about the rest of the state.
But I know when Comcast took over cable here. The township really went to bat for the community. Insisting on X amount (I forget how many) channels plus a channel for the high school to broadcast on. Or they werent going to let em operate here. It was big news for a while

I know in Port St Luci where my mother live. the basic package sucks.
Here it is great by comparison . We have twice as many channels available as my mother does.
Title: Re: Cable TV and a digital tuner
Post by: Reschke on January 02, 2009, 10:41:00 AM: Quote from: DREDIOCK on January 02, 2009, 10:25:15 AM
I dont know about the rest of the state.
But I know when Comcast took over cable here. The township really went to bat for the community. Insisting on X amount (I forget how many) channels plus a channel for the high school to broadcast on. Or they werent going to let em operate here. It was big news for a while

I know in Port St Luci where my mother live. the basic package sucks.
Here it is great by comparison . We have twice as many channels available as my mother does.

Could it be that in Port St Lucie there are actually things to do outside unlike New Jersey where if you step out on the street some crack head may decide to shoot you for not wearing the right types of shoes? Oh wait that happens here in Birmingham, AL as well and I just switched from Direct TV to AT&T U-Verse for television and from Charter to AT&T U-verse for my internet as well. Saved about $60 a month in doing that and will only loose one channel on U-verse...a kids channel called Sprout. Not a big deal but my youngest enjoys watching Sesame Street on it in the afternoons when she gets up from her nap.