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TiVo uses the cablecard to map QAM channels to VCT numbers for the guide, and to decrypt encrypted channels. An HD model TiVo can work without a cablecard, but only get celar QAM digital channels (in addition to analog and OTA), and record with manual timers.) You can, or at least used to be...

With my Engieering Fundamentals hat on, I don't see it as impossible, just not cheap, at least without a consumer scale system. First, it would need powered, maybe by a coax or Class 2 power wiring. You would feed it 24 volts at a few amps. The easier way is to do what SWiM does, which is to...

Not Ku band I guess, likely terrestrial data.

IPTV, in the technical sense, is "Layer 2" IP, the Internet we use is "Layer 3". That basically means that you can access that particular IPTV service on participating ISPs. If it is delivered over the general "Layer 3" Internet, then it is not really IPTV...

I don't know if this influenced your grade, but two deficiencies I see are:</br> 1. The RF block is not enclosed in a shield. 2. At least, the transformer is on all the time, or it seems that way. They should at least have had a low power logic supply, which turns on the main transformer. A...

The way I see it, is that in the USA and Canada, after the primary broadcast networks and other local stations, cable TV came before "cable" type channels, and as cable type channels arrived (earlier ones were mostly pay with little advertising), cable providers were the inital and exclusive...

I frankly don't care. A power/signal LED would be fine, similar to the Motorola DSR410, with a DVR record LED. In menu brightness could be doable. A unit could be easily bench modified to other than red/green. You could include a header to add ones choice of standard character display, and...

It depends on the package. Some have both. I have Digital Favorites, and get both coasts US networks, in SD and HD. It depends where Shaw thinks you are. If you are within the market of a Canadian station they carry, the station can opt for sim-sub and have the signal of the US channel switched...

Those are mostly British/European receivers, although some might have been American too. I would like somebody to do a museum of American TVRO recevers, or at least a history page.

If you are doing it from computer, one possible solution may be to get a USB or PCI DVB-S QPSK tuner card, although a standalone receiver is ultimately simpler. Another option for automation, is to get receiver controllable by serial, or an IR blaster in your automation. Most consumer receivers...

Which providers? I have Shaw Direct, and it is not on it, nor on their cable offering, I think. Bell and Rogers might have it. I think both have Russia Today.

Actually, the license is mandatory if you want to watch TV at all practically, state broadcaster or not. The only exception is watcing it after it airs, from online or DVDs. You can own a TV receiver without a license, so long as you can prove to an inspector, it is not being used to receive TV...

Actially, it paid for the TV set itself. Rent-to-own (called Hire/Purchase) has been big on the poorer days of the UK economy, and TVs on H/P were often coin op. Also, it is not uncommon to have coin op electric and gas.

CBC encrypts their feeds to protect their and others copyrights. The do sell some programming abroad, carry some US programming, and NHL hockey. CBC NewsNow (current name of Newsworld), is scrambled exactly because it is a cable channel., yes which the providers pay for, even though it is in...

I am in Canada, and have four receivers on my Shaw Direct account and in my home, none connected to phone, with no request from the provider to connect them, nor any interruptions in programming.