I have hooked up a digital cable box in my room along with my television (of course) and VCR. Well here is the problem, I have my digital cable box and VCR hooked up exactly the way the diagram shows but I'm not able to use my VCR. My digital cable shows up fine but whenever I turn on the VCR I get nothing but static. I tried turning off the digital cable box but that didn't work and all I stil get is static. I really need the VCR to work because I have my XBOX hooked up to my AV connections on my VCR and cannot play it since the VCR isn't working. My digital cable box as AV hook ups but I have not figured out how to switch the digital cable from cable to AV. I still need my VCR to work though to record shows and what not. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Nevermind, candycane solved my problems. I do have another question, I was looking on eBay at digital cable products and saw things called digital cable filters. I didn't see any description of what they do except I noticed that every one I looked at said "It Won't Lock Up Your Box" What do these things do and what are they talking about when saying "lock up your box"?
Don't order those things. They don't work. Basically, it works like this. When you put the little filter on the back of your digitical cable box, you can order any pay per view movies and you won't get charged. After you think it works, you start ordering lots and lots of movies and you get billed for it. The cable company sends signal to your box to see what you order and what not. In conclusion, it doesn't work. You'll eventually get charged for the movies you order.
Isn't the cable filter is what cable company puts in your backyard so High speed Internet cable user won't have access to the TV cable programs?
There are all kinds of filters for cable signals. SOme the cable company uses to keep you from getting certain service. Some customers use to try and steal service. The filters you are seeing on eBay are for stealing Pay-per-view(PPV) service. Here is how it works. When you order PPV the cable company sends a signal to your box to turn on the PPV channel. Your box is supposed to then send a signal back to the cable company telling them that the channel was turned on and to bill you for it. The filter is supposed to stop the signal from your box back to the cable company so you don't get charged. The problem is that the cable companies have fiqured this out and now they just charge you whether they get the signal back from your box or not. If you call and complain that you never got the PPV they will reverse the charges, but if you do this all the time they will obviously get curious and probably send someone to scan your house. They would have to catch you in the act, but they can scan what channels you have activated from the street.
For the last few days, I've received roughly 150 emails trying to sell me such a digital cable filter. I sure wish Outlook Express actually followed the "message rules" Isn't the cable filter is what cable company puts in your backyard so High speed Internet cable user won't have access to the TV cable programs? I notice that in the D/FW area, it's rare that the cable company does this. In my last apartment, I had cable internet, and the guy didn't put the filter on, so I got free cable. And a friend of mine in McKinney had the same experience at two different apartments. Even in Arlington, I didn't have cable internet (6 more months before it's available in your area, they told me for three years), but I had satellite. Since this was before you could get local networks on the satellite, I ordered the cheapest cable package that just had the local channels. But since they apparently have to put a filter on your cable for that and decided that was too much trouble, I got a whole lot of channels for $10 per month.
DO NOT BUY A DIGITAL CABLE FILTER My friend saw these things advertised on the internet. He decided to buy one. It cost 90 bucks. It arrived about a week or so later. let me just say this. It didn't work. He got billed for what he had ordered. Do not waste your money
I have earthlink high speed Internet, which is using the Time Warner cable lines, I tried to hook up the cable for TV and it works, I guess they never put a filter on. But I stoped using it cause I heard that they check your bandwidth once in a while, and they will come and get you if they found out that you are using the TV cable illegally.
No... they know what type of cable modem you've got, and they physically allow your IP address to coincide with your location, etc.
That never happened in the several years that my friend had that set-up. And I had no problems in the six months I had that set-up. The cable guy even told me he hooked up my cable for me when he did it. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have thought to check. Plus, I don't know that the cable knows that you've hooked a television up to the wall, especially on a non-digital hook-up. Back in Amarillo, the cable company gets around this particular issue by requiring you to buy a cable package to get cable internet service. Or at least that was the deal a few years ago when I lived there and had cable internet.
Well I do have a regular cable filter which allows me to get all the pay channels (HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Encore, Starz, etc.) and it actually works. One time a cable guy came out to my house and saw it and told me what it was but said he couldn't remove it unless told to do so by the owner/tenant of the house.
You don't have to have cable. My Aunt and Uncle use AOL Cable which uses the exact same modem as Roadrunner and they have Direct TV.
You can... but they install a trap on the line to prevent you from getting the basic service on TV. But, of course, some companies never really do that... esp. at apartment complexes.
