Anyone know of an inexpensive ($100 or less) for cable?

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> All DBS channels are digital channels. I don't believe DirecTV *scrambles*
> any channels. I don't know anyone who refers to satellite as cable, but CNN
> is typically called a cable channel.
>
> There are two classification of channels, broadcast channels and cable channels.
> Both are available from satellite companies and cable companies.
>

Oh c'mon Jack you're quibbling over nonsense. In my original statement
I used the term "cable channels" to distinguish them from "Satellite
channels". I clearly know (and reiterated) that the Directivo can
receive all Directv channels. It's all well and good to nitpick over
the definition of "cable channel", but I meant "a channel received over
cable" as opposed to "a channel received via satellite signal". Would
this make you feel better?

"There are no Tivo-branded DVRs that will properly decode any digital or
scrambled analog video broadcasts over cable from cable video providers
without a cable-company provided digital receiver or analog descrambler
used in conjuction with an IR blaster."

Somehow I think the first statement was less confusing.

Randy S.

 

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"Jack Ak" <akjack@excite.com> wrote in
news:cArQd.362$OU1.267@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:

> You might get an argument from those who use a DirecTV DVR with TiVo.
> It receives all cable channels carried by DirecTV and doesn't need
> a cable box or IR blaster. Maybe that DVR shouldn't be called a TiVo.

It isn't. It's a "DirecTV receiver with TiVo service" or commonly referred
to as a "DirecTiVo".

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Jack Ak wrote:

> You might get an argument from those who use a DirecTV DVR with TiVo.
> It receives all cable channels carried by DirecTV and doesn't need
> a cable box or IR blaster. Maybe that DVR shouldn't be called a TiVo.

But DirecTV doesn't have any cable channels.

It has a lot of network feeds, many of the same networks that cable
TV operators subscribe to, but they are all satellite channels,
not cable channels.
-Joe

 

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In article <mqOdnQ0pzIFxQIjfRVn-qA@comcast.com>, Joe Smith
<joe@inwap.com> wrote:

> Jack Ak wrote:
>
> > You might get an argument from those who use a DirecTV DVR with TiVo.
> > It receives all cable channels carried by DirecTV and doesn't need
> > a cable box or IR blaster. Maybe that DVR shouldn't be called a TiVo.
>
> But DirecTV doesn't have any cable channels.
>
> It has a lot of network feeds, many of the same networks that cable
> TV operators subscribe to, but they are all satellite channels,
> not cable channels.


This sort of pedancy has grown tiresome. When Jack says "cable
channels," everybody knows what he means. It's not his fault that
there's still no other common way to refer to those channels.

They're certainly not networks, which is what you said. Those channels
aren't networks. They're single-source broadcasters.

 

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"Joe Smith" <joe@inwap.com> wrote in message news:mqOdnQ0pzIFxQIjfRVn-qA@comcast.com...
> Jack Ak wrote:
>
> > You might get an argument from those who use a DirecTV DVR with TiVo.
> > It receives all cable channels carried by DirecTV and doesn't need
> > a cable box or IR blaster. Maybe that DVR shouldn't be called a TiVo.
>
> But DirecTV doesn't have any cable channels.
>
> It has a lot of network feeds, many of the same networks that cable
> TV operators subscribe to, but they are all satellite channels,
> not cable channels.
> -Joe

If you want to get pedantic, all but local broadcast channels are
satellite channels. Cable company "head-ends" have satellite dish farms.
The major networks use satellites to feed programming to network affiliates.

 

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> You might get an argument from those who use a DirecTV DVR with TiVo.
> It receives all cable channels carried by DirecTV and doesn't need
> a cable box or IR blaster. Maybe that DVR shouldn't be called a TiVo.

Or maybe you'd get the argument "get a life"

 

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Dr. Personality wrote:
> In article <mqOdnQ0pzIFxQIjfRVn-qA@comcast.com>, Joe Smith
> <joe@inwap.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Jack Ak wrote:
>>
>>
>>>You might get an argument from those who use a DirecTV DVR with TiVo.
>>>It receives all cable channels carried by DirecTV and doesn't need
>>>a cable box or IR blaster. Maybe that DVR shouldn't be called a TiVo.
>>
>>But DirecTV doesn't have any cable channels.
>>
>>It has a lot of network feeds, many of the same networks that cable
>>TV operators subscribe to, but they are all satellite channels,
>>not cable channels.
>
>
> This sort of pedancy has grown tiresome. When Jack says "cable
> channels," everybody knows what he means. It's not his fault that
> there's still no other common way to refer to those channels.
>
> They're certainly not networks, which is what you said. Those channels
> aren't networks. They're single-source broadcasters.

Since this thread seems to be revived a bit . .

I agree this pendancy is tiresome, but if anyone's to blame, it's Jack,
not Joe. I differentiated between satellite signals and cable signals
by referring to "cable channels". While that may not have been totally
technically correct, I believe the point was made. I don't think Jack
was adding anything to the conversation at that point except to pick
nits. It doesn't really matter to me, but I'd hate to see Joe blamed
for something he didn't start.

Randy S.