TV Tuner card/Cable question

[MrHood22]

I'm having a lot of trouble setting up my TV Tuner card. I have a hauppauge hvr-1600

http://www.pacificgeek.com/productimages/xl/5188-7111-CO-R.jpg

We have this black box which i'm told is the digital cable box.

http://www.motorola.com/Business/US...t-tops)/All-Digital+QAM+Set-tops/DCT700_US-EN

Essentially what happens is the Cable comes from Room 1, then it comes into Room 2 (my room). There it is split. 1 goes to my TV tuner card in my computer, the other goes to Room 3. I never had it plugged into the Digital box but i assume it will benefit me if i do?

I have the cable line plugged into the TV in.

As of now I have the digital box unplugged and set aside. I have it just run through a normal splitter. I then set up my card to scan for Digital ATSC as well as Analog signals.

For Digital ATSC it picks up 8 channels. All channels are in the thousands (1172, 1171, 1031, 1571, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1291)

Then it brings me to the analog tuner setup. Source is set to cable (instead of cable HRC or antenna). it starts scanning channels 1 to 125. but it doesn't find anything.

Any idea how to get this to work?

 

[engiNURD]

Who is your cable provider?
That card will only do ClearQAM and analog off of your cable line, IIRC.
Use the SiliconDust website to find out which channels you get via ClearQAM.

 

[bobdole369]

I know the answer:

Look at this page and tell me where you have the cable plugged in?

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr1600mckit.html


With Hauppauges 1600/1800's you have one input for QAM/ATSC (i.e. HD over the air or QAM via cable), and another for NTSC.

You need to split your incoming cable again at the card, and supply both connections. The reason is that since over the air HD (via rabbit ears) is the best quality possible, Hauppauge wants you to have one cable line coming in for the 1-125, and another for the excellent HDOTA via your outside HD antenna.

 

[MrHood22]

Who is your cable provider?
That card will only do ClearQAM and analog off of your cable line, IIRC.
Use the SiliconDust website to find out which channels you get via ClearQAM.

Comcast is my cable provider.

I reset it up and now I get about 60 Analog channels and 15 Digital (ATSC) channels.

However I did notice that when i'm watching the Cowboys/Panthers game that the channel isn't 100% clear, there's a little distortion in it. What does that mean?

As far as where i have the cable plugged in, I thought I had it in"FM in" but now it was working in "TV in". Now I just have the cable that's running to my computer split so I have it plugged into "FM in" as well as "TV in"

 

[MrHood22]

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