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mm

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:42:23 -0400, mm
wrote:

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:07:29 -0400, (MICHELLE H.)
wrote:

Hello,

This is not really a "repair" question, but I am still looking for some
info. please. Comcast Cable is doing some kind of switchover to mostly
all digital channels on April 15th of this year, I believe it is. They
say that channels 23-69 are all going to be in digital, and the only way
you can view them is if you have either #1 a "Digital Converter Box", OR
#2 a "DTA Box, both if which you get from Comcast.

If you don't use one of those 2 boxes, then you won't be able to view
channels 23-69 after April 15th, 2010. Anyway my question is, in the
living room where we have our TV and the Comcast "Digital Converter
Box", we have the A/B Switch hooked up to the VCR, so that we can record
one show on the VCR while watching another show on the "Digital
Converter Box". But now when they do the switch over, the VCR will no
longer get channels 23-69.

I forgot to deal with the issue of scrambling. But if they say you
can watch it with just a set-top box, then scramblign is probably not
an issue.

BTW, I odn't have cable, but I know there are ways around most of this
stuff.