VCR
HELP!!!! My cable company just went digital,cox cable,now I can't use my old VCR,they tel me it's not compatible. Is thus true ? Or is there a way to make it work,if so,how would I make it work,thank...
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Gene&Ginny wrote:1775 wrote:Can you tell us who your cable provider is?
... I have a VCR with a digital tuner. I connect the cable coming into the house directly to the coax connector on the VCR and its digital tuner gets all of the basic channels - no problem. It is not connected through the cable box. Our cable went digital about years ago. We use this when the cable box decides its time to update itself for a hour. This update (which is a regular occurrence) only effects the cable box and not the cable signal on the line. Works just fine.
Optimum - also known as Cablevision. They are in at least three states - NY, NJ, CT. I don't know if they are in RI. As I said,it works through the digital tuner built into a Panasonic VCR/DVD recorder - it does not work any other way and what I get is CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, WPIX, and two local PBS stations. Not a lot, but the main broadcast channels are there. I can set the VCR/DVD and record these channels to time shift - plus when the box reboots (frequently) there is something to watch until it is back up - if it goes back up.
I should add that the CEO of this cable company (who has bought up the main newspaper in this area) has stated that his goal is for every one of his cable subscribers pay $500 a month for his services. It is not quite there yet but it goes up regularly without any gain. I recently put up a quality antenna outside and pull in a lot of broadcast channels including some that I am paying for on the Cable and some not on the cable that are pretty good. But if I drop the cable television service my internet will go up to just about what I am paying for both...
