[TriLUG] TV Tuner Card suggestion [may be OT]

[Josh Vickery]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK sweet!   I had no idea they had moved that much over, I was using 3
> tuners total, 2 HD QAM from the HDHomeRun and an analog NSTC USB
> tuner.  I'm rescanning now to see if I can dump the USB tuner
> altogether.
>
> Thanks!

If you have Timer Warner Durham, I find this list to be wonderfully helpful:

http://home1.gte.net/res18h39/channels.htm

as Time Warner seems to like to change their channel assignments.

In fact, that list may be slightly out of date at the moment as I no
longer seem to be able to tune WLFL HD at 77.1. Regular WLFL works
fine though at 78.12. I did the slow painful process of trying to
track down WLFL HD by hand, figuring I could email the site owner with
an update, but I failed to track it down.

It may be that the site is OK, but that there is a new trap on my line
which is blocking 77.1 (C77.1:543000000:QAM_256:32+33:34:1) as it's
the lowest frequency on the list I scan for, and the tuner doesn't see
anything on that frequency anymore. I only suspect this because the
above site owner has been quite vigilant in updating his or her site,
and I did recently cancel a bunch of Time Warner services, which may
have prompted them to mess with the traps on my line. My experience
with traps in the past has been that they are not very exact in what
they block/allow.