You don't need to upgrade to digital cable to get these stations. TVs and VCRs with QAM tuners will get them, just do a channel scan. The FCC forbids scrambling local broadcast stations.
Oh really? Here in Chicago, even our locals are scrambled (I've hooked Clear QAM tuners up, like our Bravia). They can (and probably will) get an FCC exemption.
If I were out there, I'd go FiOS in a heart-beat. Oh.. wait.. everyone I know out there already has.
Call Comcast and tell them they can't scramble them. The only exception is if they can prove major cable theft problems. Do a new channel scan, they be under different channel numbers such as 105.2 instead of 12.1. If you still can't get them and Comcast won't fix it, you need to complain to your local franchise authority. Charter does not scramble them. Charter scrambled a local 24 hour weather channel by mistake. I emailed and told them that was not allowed and it was fixed within a day.
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You don't need to upgrade to digital cable to get these stations. TVs and VCRs with QAM tuners will get them, just do a channel scan. The FCC forbids scrambling local broadcast stations.
Oh really? Here in Chicago, even our locals are scrambled (I've hooked Clear QAM tuners up, like our Bravia). They can (and probably will) get an FCC exemption.
If I were out there, I'd go FiOS in a heart-beat. Oh.. wait.. everyone I know out there already has.
Call Comcast and tell them they can't scramble them. The only exception is if they can prove major cable theft problems. Do a new channel scan, they be under different channel numbers such as 105.2 instead of 12.1. If you still can't get them and Comcast won't fix it, you need to complain to your local franchise authority. Charter does not scramble them. Charter scrambled a local 24 hour weather channel by mistake. I emailed and told them that was not allowed and it was fixed within a day.