Cox and TV Tuner Question

I have Cox basic and expanded as of right now. No converter or anything. I'm
running it into my home enter. pc. with a Hauppage PRV 150 MCE tv tuner
(analog). Viewing it on a Westinghouse 37" 1080P monitor. If I upgrade my
video card to a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 1129 NTSC/ATSC/QAM/ tuner, can I
view Cox HD without leasing one of their HD boxes?

Thanks,
Greg

"Greg" wrote:
I have Cox basic and expanded as of right now. No converter or anything.
I'm running it into my home enter. pc. with a Hauppage PRV 150 MCE tv
tuner (analog). Viewing it on a Westinghouse 37" 1080P monitor. If I
upgrade my video card to a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 1129 NTSC/ATSC/QAM/
tuner, can I view Cox HD without leasing one of
their HD boxes?

Cox doesn't advertise this, but you can get a few HD stations thru their
cables w/o using one of their STB's. I did a channel-search with a new
HDTV before getting a Cox-box and picked up HD-OTA broadcasts
by the stations that Cox also carries in those tiers (i.e. local network &
independents) -- perhaps due to must-carry rules -- but no cable-only
services like ESPN, Discovery, etc.

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I have Cox basic and expanded as of right now. No converter or anything. I'm
running it into my home enter. pc. with a Hauppage PRV 150 MCE tv tuner
(analog). Viewing it on a Westinghouse 37" 1080P monitor. If I upgrade my
video card to a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 1129 NTSC/ATSC/QAM/ tuner, can I
view Cox HD without leasing one of their HD boxes?

Yes, if Cox carries any clear QAM channels in your area. Many systems do carry
some of the local OTA stations that way.

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"Greg" wrote:

Viewing it on a Westinghouse 37" 1080P monitor.

Wow!

How you like that unit?

And what did it cost?

I love it. XP Media Center looks great on it. Nothing better than sufring
the internet on a 37" monitor. Unless it's a bigger one. =)

I purchased it at a Sams Club over a year ago for a little over 1000.00.


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"Greg" wrote:

Viewing it on a Westinghouse 37" 1080P monitor.

Wow!

How you like that unit?

And what did it cost?

whosbest54 wrote:

In article , says...


I have Cox basic and expanded as of right now. No converter or anything. I'm
running it into my home enter. pc. with a Hauppage PRV 150 MCE tv tuner
(analog). Viewing it on a Westinghouse 37" 1080P monitor. If I upgrade my
video card to a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 1129 NTSC/ATSC/QAM/ tuner, can I
view Cox HD without leasing one of their HD boxes?

Yes, if Cox carries any clear QAM channels in your area. Many systems do carry
some of the local OTA stations that way.

whosbest54

But there may be a "gotcha" if you insist on using MCE. The last I
heard it didn't support QAM tuners. That will probably change and may
have already; I don't have MCE so don't keep up. You should be able
to tune clear QAM with the device's own software.

"Greg" wrote:

I love it. XP Media Center looks great on it. Nothing better than sufring
the internet on a 37" monitor. Unless it's a bigger one. =)

I purchased it at a Sams Club over a year ago for a little over 1000.00.

Wow!

How you like that unit?

And what did it cost?


Hmm...... doesn't bother you having such a big display
with NO tuner built into it at all? I'm kinda leery
abt buying something WITHOUT a digital tuner in it....
at that size anyway.

I worry abt trying to resell it on used market if ever
needed) without a tuner in it. Afraid no one will want
it except a few techie type people.

that doesn't concern you?

Just curious..

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:21:28 -0600, me wrote:

Hmm...... doesn't bother you having such a big display with NO tuner
built into it at all? I'm kinda leery abt buying something WITHOUT a
digital tuner in it.... at that size anyway.

I worry abt trying to resell it on used market if ever needed) without a
tuner in it. Afraid no one will want it except a few techie type people.

that doesn't concern you?

It did me. That's why I bought TV's with ATSC tuners in them to use as
monitors. It's also nice to be able to turn just the TV on to one of the
weather channels without having the PC on. Also a good backup in case the
computer system crashes.

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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:28:38 -0500, Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

In article ifkqj.10697[email protected],
Wes Newell wrote:

I worry abt trying to resell it on used market if ever needed)
without a tuner in it. Afraid no one will want it except a few techie
type people.

that doesn't concern you?

It did me. That's why I bought TV's with ATSC tuners in them to use as
monitors.

That's not what you told the world before.

You were proudly telling anyone who would listen about how you just have
standard monitors for your MythTV.

That was 2 years ago. Since then I've bought 2 new HDTV's. 2 years ago,
The smaller HDTV's didn't have ATSC tuners in them either. I didn't buy
one til last April when the 27" models came with atsc tuners. When I
switched to digital completely in 2005 I had 2 19" monitors that worked
perfect as HDTV's and an older 32" analog TV that also worked great. I
still have one monitor in use (this one). But that wasn't the question.
I've also upgraded all my PC's since then. **** like that happens over
time you know. You also might note that I'm still using even the new
HDTV's as monitors, not TV's. And the reason I bought them with digital
tuners is what you cut out. No need to repeat it.

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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:28:38 -0500, Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:

In article [email protected],
Wes Newell wrote:

I worry abt trying to resell it on used market if ever needed)
without a tuner in it. Afraid no one will want it except a few techie
type people.

that doesn't concern you?

It did me. That's why I bought TV's with ATSC tuners in them to use as
monitors.

That's not what you told the world before.

You were proudly telling anyone who would listen about how you just have
standard monitors for your MythTV.

That was 2 years ago. Since then I've bought 2 new HDTV's. 2 years ago,
The smaller HDTV's didn't have ATSC tuners in them either. I didn't buy
one til last April when the 27" models came with atsc tuners. When I
switched to digital completely in 2005 I had 2 19" monitors that worked
perfect as HDTV's and an older 32" analog TV that also worked great. I
still have one monitor in use (this one). But that wasn't the question.
I've also upgraded all my PC's since then. **** like that happens over
time you know. You also might note that I'm still using even the new
HDTV's as monitors, not TV's. And the reason I bought them with digital
tuners is what you cut out. No need to repeat it.



Apparently, Elmo has little to do but remember what people on this list said
two years ago...LOL.

Leonard