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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 991788" data-attributes="member: 82144">Yeah, sort of.&nbsp;Lets have an example to clarify...&nbsp;Say you have a Ceton InfiniTV 4, and you also have an older clear QAM tuner such as a Hauppauge HVR-2250.&nbsp;Both the Ceton (CableCARD) and Hauppauge (clear QAM) cards have 64 and 256 QAM tuner/demodulators... which means that physically they can tune the same channels. This means that both cards should be able to tune clear QAM channels. Of cource, the big difference is that the CableCARD capacity enables the InfiniTV to decrypt channels; the HVR-2250 simply can't do that.&nbsp;With the current patch, if you scan in your channels with an InfiniTV tuner you won't be able to use them with the Hauppauge tuner. Not even the in-the-clear (unencrypted) channels which the Hauppauge card should work with.Same applies in the other direction: scan for channels with the Hauppauge tuner and you won't be able to use them with the InfiniTV tuner.&nbsp;What I'm proposing to try and support: scanning for channels with the InfiniTV tuner creates channels that both the InfiniTV and Hauppauge tuners can use (just have to map/link the channels as usual).&nbsp;Note that I'm not able to support scanning channels with the Hauppauge that can be used with both the Hauppauge and InfiniTV due to limitations in the info that a clear QAM tuner can receive (as compared with a CableCARD tuner).&nbsp;Hope that makes a bit more sense?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 991788, member: 82144"] Yeah, sort of. Lets have an example to clarify... Say you have a Ceton InfiniTV 4, and you also have an older clear QAM tuner such as a Hauppauge HVR-2250. Both the Ceton (CableCARD) and Hauppauge (clear QAM) cards have 64 and 256 QAM tuner/demodulators... which means that physically they can tune the same channels. This means that both cards should be able to tune clear QAM channels. Of cource, the big difference is that the CableCARD capacity enables the InfiniTV to decrypt channels; the HVR-2250 simply can't do that. With the current patch, if you scan in your channels with an InfiniTV tuner you won't be able to use them with the Hauppauge tuner. Not even the in-the-clear (unencrypted) channels which the Hauppauge card should work with. Same applies in the other direction: scan for channels with the Hauppauge tuner and you won't be able to use them with the InfiniTV tuner. What I'm proposing to try and support: scanning for channels with the InfiniTV tuner creates channels that both the InfiniTV and Hauppauge tuners can use (just have to map/link the channels as usual). Note that I'm not able to support scanning channels with the Hauppauge that can be used with both the Hauppauge and InfiniTV due to limitations in the info that a clear QAM tuner can receive (as compared with a CableCARD tuner). Hope that makes a bit more sense? [/QUOTE]

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