(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per (PeteCresswell):
I cannot cite exactly how the cableTV connectivity plays out -
except to say that it is definitely there if you choose the right
model. Something about a provider-specific card, I think.

Got it: cable needs the "Prime" model:
https://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-H.../dp/B004HKIB6E
and something called "CableCARD":that you have to rent from the cable
provider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD

How is your OTA reception?

If we got any OTA reception we wouldn't have a satellite dish ... we useta
get 3 or 4 channels when it was analog , since it all went digital we get
nothing .

I've got Weingard's most bigass antenna (http://tinyurl.com/hg2lft3)
mounted on my garden shed, a few 2-TB drives in my 24-7 PC, SageTV
running on that PC.... and I have more good, interesting TV in the box
that I could ever watch.

Not only that, but every few months some nice young person from one of
the cable providers comes around to tell us that we are the only
people within X miles that do not have cable and wouldn't we like to
sign up....

We've been having issues with the channel guide (solved by a reset of the
receiver) and I asked the CS rep about DVR's . Her suggestion was for
something else that came with "2 mini-receivers" , and "the equipment is
free right now !" . Couldn't understand that it wasn't what we needed for
our ONE TV set ... so now I'm looking for a way to do what I want without
having to pay them an extra 20 or 30 bucks a month . Fercryin'outloud , it's
for 2 or 3 programs a week !
Cable ain't made it out here yet ... 12 miles from town , maybe a dozen
houses down here in The Holler . We feel lucky we get decent DSL internet
service !
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Snag