Re: xawtv colors muted [CONTINUED]

["Robert A. Book" <rbook pobox com>]

> Is there any way to set all the channels at once to the fine-tuned
> setting i like? I have to retune it everytime I change channels right
> now.

Good question!


> The channels aren't just off by one. There are some in really weird
> places. Like TNN is supposed to be 99 but it's 15. The preview channel
> is supposed to be 3 but it's 4, 5 is missing (it's supposed to be CNN or
> something), and 6 is Fox (it should be 5).
> 
> Ever seen anything like this before?


Sort of.  Sounds like you are using cable (as opposed to an antenna)
Here where I am, we have the option of "digital cable" or "analog
cable."  Both signals come in on the same physical cable, but the
channels are different, and you need different boxes attached to your
TV to watch each.  During the brief period when I had "digital cable"
(got it just to get a price break on the cable modem startup fee :-)
The company gave me a digital cable box for the TV, and I plugged the
cable -- without any box -- into my ATI All-in-wonder TV card.  The
channel lineups were different, since I was getting "digital cable"
through the box on the TV, and "analog cable" through the TV card on
the computer.  Then I got rid of the "digital cable" service, and the
cable plugs directly into my TV ("analog cable") -- and the TV gets
the same channel lineup that my TV card always has.

If your cable company sets things up this way, and you have a digital
cable box, that's probably it.  Solutions:  (1) live with it, and
learn two cable lineups, (2) get "digital cable" for the input to your
TV card (either by splitting the output of the cable box -- would this
even work? -- or getting another cable box), or (3) dump digital
cable, so your TV gets the same lineup as your computer.  ;-)


--Robert