Re: xawtv colors muted [CONTINUED]

[Aciel <aciel speakeasy net>]

We do not have digital cable, nor do we have a cable box of any kind.
It's your standard analog cable. And it worked fine before I reinstalled
the OS, so my guess is that some setting is off on the TV card. Is there
some way to reset it completely back to the factory defaults?

John


On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 02:01, Robert A. Book wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
> 
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