Hey, So heres my situation, i recently purchased a 19" samsung LCD television with a digital tuner. I started by hooking it up to an antenna to see what HD channels i could get over air and there were a few but not enough. Next i hooked up my tv to a standard cable output expecting to just get the usual 50 or so channels, however after doing a channel scan it found about 600 channels, most of which were DTV. now a lot were scrambled but im still getting about 50-75 digital channels. Firstly i was wondering if this was normal, and second, a few of the HD channels like CBS, NBC and Fox are coming in but with no sound. i was wondering if there are any tricks to get the sound to come through, or if it is being scrambled and theres no hope of getting audio. Any help would be great, Thanks,
Hey yourself! I live in the Rochester NY area and the same thing happened to me. I bought a 19" Poloroid HDTV and hook my raw CATV cable to it and lo and behold! After doing a channel scan, up poprd channels like 5-12 and 80.3 and 127-15 etc etc. Local channels like our PBS affiliate has 4 "sub" channels, the NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX channels all have HDTV channels running in 720p or 1080p formats. I believe they are in "transition" until things get settled in Feb at cut-over time. I the meantime we get HDTV which is very nice indeed EXCEPT there seems to be a lot of (I'll call it) fuzzy breaks. Like the picture stalls and then catches up with itself. Most distracting! Any comments?
