Does HTL-HD do Cable High Def?

[pyrr]

Howdy,

I have a HTL-HD and i also have adelphia HD. Can I use the reciever with my HD over My Cable?

Meaning can I get rid of my motorola HD Reciever and Just use the HTL-HD box?

Thanks
Pyrr

 

[DTV TiVo Dealer]

No. I am sorry to say DIRECTV set top boxes can not decode cable signals.

DIRECTV does not permit it.

 

[Neutron]

I had thought about that too but in order to do this I would have to pay $12.95 a month to the cable company to get their HD/DVR box. The local HD channels wouldn't cost any extra.

I can get most of them in fine and I get CBS-HD through Directv so to me it isn't really worth it.

 

[slacker9876]

The HTL HD does cable, but it is just not an addressable converter .. so no "digital" cable and most HD Packs on cable are in the digital packages. I set mine up for basic cable but once I got the right antenna my OTA is obviously better than cable.


the short answer , no ... you cannot get rid of your converter.

 

[boba]

It should depend on the cable system if cable retransmits the ATSC signal the HTL-HD should be able to process it if the cable system reprocesses the ATSC signal no it won't process it.

 

[mini1]

The HTL-HD doesn't have a Qam digital/HD cable tuner. It has no abilitly to tune anything other than DirecTV, NTSC, or ATSC. I don't know of any cable system who is still broadcasting digital ATSC.

 

[DTV TiVo Dealer]

You can not use the HTL-HD to decode any cable (QAM) signal.

Very few people know this, but the STB actually does have a QAM tuner integrated, but it is not activated in the firmware as DIRECTV absolutely does not permit any cable signal decoding on any DIRECTV STB.

 

[Neutron]

If Directv won't allow it then why is the capability in the box already?