[olug] Slightly OT: COX digital channel numbers (mythTV users?)

[Noel Leistad]

coworker that runs our cabletv plant says the info exists in the 
datastream, but if it's encrypted...premium channels, or just on their 
whim for the entire hi-def tier, you might be SOL....? I don't get it 
all, but depends on ability to receive QAM64, QAM256?? whatever is 
coming your way re: their system....assignment to channels in the 
datastream sounds pretty arbitrary to a novice like me.

Daryl J. Rue wrote:

>Are you using a HDTV PVR card?  What are you using?  I think you just going
>to have to go through the channels and figure them out as I have never seen
>a compiled list.  I have been able to pick up other folks payperviews
>scanning through the 70.x series, if I remember correctly.
>
>Daryl 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Ryan
>Stille
>Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:56 AM
>To: Omaha Linux User Group
>Subject: Re: [olug] Slightly OT: COX digital channel numbers (mythTV users?)
>
>Maybe I wasn't clear in my original post, but those numbers (800 block) 
>are for a COX digital cable box.  On a standard, QAM tuner (inside an 
>HDTV for example, or a pcHDTV linux tuner card) the digital channels 
>always have a decimal in them.
>
>This is how it worked in Sioux City - CableOne says TNT HD is 454, PBS 
>HD is 470, etc.  But I find those two channels on 19.3 and  20.1.  Thats 
>why I think the Cox published numbers are just the numbers their cable 
>box maps to the real QAM channels.
>
>-Ryan
>
>Jon H. Larsen wrote:
>  
>
>>The HD channels should be in the 800 block.
>>
>>Here is Cox's channel guide for Omaha.
>><http://www.cox.com/omaha/Digitalcable/dclineup.asp>
>>
>>On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Ryan Stille wrote:
>>
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>>>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:59:42 -0500
>>>From: Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com>
>>>Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>>>To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>>>Subject: [olug] Slightly OT: COX digital channel numbers (mythTV users?)
>>>
>>>I just moved here and am trying to hook up my HDTV to Cox cable.  If I 
>>>had a Cox HD receiver, I could just look in their guide to see what the 
>>>HD channels are.  But I use my built in tuner, and the actual channels 
>>>on there do not relate to the Cox published channel numbers.  My HD 
>>>channel numbers are usually like 18.3 and 21.1, etc.   Anyone who uses a 
>>>separate, non-cox tuner probably has the same thing (mythTV users?).  So 
>>>if anyone could help me out with the channel numbers, please email me.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>-Ryan
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>>      
>>>


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