20wmgx2 and TV Tuner

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Hey guys,

Got the NEC 20wmgx2, great looking monitor. I'm trying to setup my analog cable to play through the monitor but it only picks up about 7 channels of the higher numbered channels.

I put a splitter near the cable modem and ran one to the modem and the other cable to the monitor. Is this the way it's supposed to be done?

In the channel setting menu, the TV setting won't auto select any channels and STD - HRC - IRC auto selects only the 7 channels. I can hook up a regular TV without any cable boxes and it will work. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers
 
I had a problem with that until I changed settings for the scan (can't recall what though). Do you get cable tv already or do you just have cable internet? If it's just intarweb than you may not get much tv from the cable..
 
Yes, I have cable Internet and cable TV. That's what I don't understand because I have regular TVs hooked up without problems. The channels that do come through are in the 80's and are cable channels.
 
_JAWS_ said:
Yes, I have cable Internet and cable TV. That's what I don't understand because I have regular TVs hooked up without problems. The channels that do come through are in the 80's and are cable channels.
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Have you tried manually forcing a scan? Mine uses "STD" (just looked) but yours may be different so I would try them all until you get the channels.
 
Hey Joemama,

If by "forcing a scan" do you mean doing an -- auto select channels -- where the monitor goes through all the available channels and tags the ones that come in with a picture? Yes, I've done that with STD, HRC, and IRC. Still a no go.

Watching cable TV on this monitor is not the reason I bought it but it would have been a "nice to have" feature.

Thanks for checking your setup.
 
I had the same problem and ended up getting it to work. I don't recall what I did exactly. I ended-up getting an ATI 650 TV tuner card anyway ($125) but the NEC tuner was better. I used a splitter as well. I have wires/cables around like crazy lol
 
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