Is Dish or Directtv Scrambled

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I got this New LG OTA DVI and was wondering if you had a Dish of some
sort, could I get any of the HD Channels.

LG Electronics HDTV Receiver/Hi-Format DVD Player with ATSC Tuner
Brand LG Electronics
Receiver Type HD Receiver with ATSC and QAM Tuners
Remote Control Type Unified


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Joe H wrote:
> I got this New LG OTA DVI and was wondering if you had a Dish of
> some sort, could I get any of the HD Channels.
>
> LG Electronics HDTV Receiver/Hi-Format DVD Player with ATSC Tuner
> Brand LG Electronics
> Receiver Type HD Receiver with ATSC and QAM Tuners
> Remote Control Type Unified

No. Only if you subscribed to their service. You would need a compatible
HD receiver from DirecTV or Dish and even then I'm not sure you could
record anything.

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Your LG appears to have an ATSC decoder/tuner built into it. If this is the
case, then an HD-capable terrestrial antenna such as the one manufactured by
Terk will allow you to recieve OTA broadcasts in HD. AFAIK, OTA-HD broadcasts
are limited to material from your local networks, but this is better than
nothing! You should verify though that you can properly recieve OTA broadcasts
in your area, some areas in or near mountains or surrounded by "forest" area
with large groupings of high trees sometimes have trouble with OTA
transmissions.

 

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>No. Only if you subscribed to their service. You would need a compatible
>HD receiver from DirecTV or Dish and even then I'm not sure you could
>record anything.

Do they HD-compatible Tivo units work with DirecTV/Dish? I know that some of
them are designed for "general" use, mostly with digital cable. The Hughes Tivo
unit I have has a DirecTV reciever built-in, but it isn't HD compatible.

 

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"Steve Grauman" <oneactor1@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040623021952.19209.00000523@mb-m04.aol.com...
> >No. Only if you subscribed to their service. You would need a compatible
> >HD receiver from DirecTV or Dish and even then I'm not sure you could
> >record anything.
>
> Do they HD-compatible Tivo units work with DirecTV/Dish? I know that some
of
> them are designed for "general" use, mostly with digital cable. The Hughes
Tivo
> unit I have has a DirecTV reciever built-in, but it isn't HD compatible.

Here's one:
http/www.wholesaleconnection.com/productdetails.aspx?Product=3341

 

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On 23 Jun 2004 06:19:52 GMT, in article
<20040623021952.19209.00000523@mb-m04.aol.com>, oneactor1@aol.com (Steve
Grauman) wrote:

>
>Do they HD-compatible Tivo units work with DirecTV/Dish? I know that some of

The DirecTV HR10-250 is an HD-capable Tivo that works with DirecTV &
OTA. Not compatible with cable / Dish network.

Dish has their own Dish / OTA HD DVR, not associated with Tivo.

>them are designed for "general" use, mostly with digital cable.

There aren't really any "general" use HD-DVR units yet, unless you
consider the combo of just OTA & unscrambled QAM "general". Everything
but free OTA is provider specific at the moment. There are digital
cable HD-PVR units, that work only with cable, not OTA/sat, available
from Motorola & Scientific Atlanta, but they have to be obtained from
your own cable company.

Not until later in the year, after the cableCARD standard is deployed,
will you be able to get HD-DVRs (from Sony, Mitsubishi, others) that
work on any cableCARD-compliant cable system. These won't work with
satellite, but some of them will have OTA capability.
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>Here's one:
>http/www.wholesaleconnection.com/productdetails.aspx?Product=3341

Look exactly like my Hughes unit, except with HD capability built in.

 

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>Everything
>but free OTA is provider specific at the moment. There are digital
>cable HD-PVR units, that work only with cable, not OTA/sat, available
>from Motorola & Scientific Atlanta, but they have to be obtained from
>your own cable company.

Not true. We bought a Tivo for my grandparents to use with their Adelphia
digital cable. The cable-box from Adelphia is a completely seperate unit from
the Tivo, which is a "general use" unit we purchased from a Best Buy.

>Not until later in the year, after the cableCARD standard is deployed,
>will you be able to get HD-DVRs (from Sony, Mitsubishi, others) that
>work on any cableCARD-compliant cable system. These won't work with
>satellite, but some of them will have OTA capability.

Zenith is making a couple of TV sets with digital cable tuners built right in.
You can slip your card right into the TV and it'll do the work, without the
need for an external box. If they also have COAX or RCA A/V outputs, I see no
reason why one of these TVs couldn't output to a Tivo unit the same way we
hooked up the DVR at my grandparents house.

 

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oneactor1@aol.com (Steve Grauman) wrote in message news:<20040624020044.23053.00000577@mb-m07.aol.com>...
> >Everything
> >but free OTA is provider specific at the moment. There are digital
> >cable HD-PVR units, that work only with cable, not OTA/sat, available
> >from Motorola & Scientific Atlanta, but they have to be obtained from
> >your own cable company.
>
> Not true. We bought a Tivo for my grandparents to use with their Adelphia
> digital cable. The cable-box from Adelphia is a completely seperate unit from
> the Tivo, which is a "general use" unit we purchased from a Best Buy.
>
>

You can use any of the std Tivo units with OTA, cable, sat, but you
can't record HD unless it's the $1000 HD specific model used with
DirectTV that was referred to previously.




>Not until later in the year, after the cableCARD standard is
deployed,
> >will you be able to get HD-DVRs (from Sony, Mitsubishi, others) that
> >work on any cableCARD-compliant cable system. These won't work with
> >satellite, but some of them will have OTA capability.
>
> Zenith is making a couple of TV sets with digital cable tuners built right in.
> You can slip your card right into the TV and it'll do the work, without the
> need for an external box. If they also have COAX or RCA A/V outputs, I see no
> reason why one of these TVs couldn't output to a Tivo unit the same way we
> hooked up the DVR at my grandparents house.

 

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>You can use any of the std Tivo units with OTA, cable, sat, but you
>can't record HD unless it's the $1000 HD specific model used with
>DirectTV that was referred to previously.

Sorry, I missed a detail. I was just saying that "general use" Tivos are made
for non-HD use. The Tivo we purchased for my grandparents is just a Tivo, with
no special sat. or HD hardware.