9220 with basic cable?

[DiscoRage]

So here's the deal... I have a BEV 9220. As much as a I love the service with bell, I had to cancel it because I moved into a house where cable is included in my rent, and I'm unable to mount a dish.

If I hook my cable line into my 9220's "cable in" input, I can find all the analog channels, but I can't watch any of them because I don't have a dish hooked up. When I try to watch TV, it tries to find a satellite signal, and it wont let me access the guide.

Is there any way to bypass this, and just watch the cable channels? I'd love to be able to use the 9220's PVR functions. I don't care about HD at this point.

Any suggestions?

 

[miguelaqui]

So here's the deal... I have a BEV 9220. As much as a I love the service with bell, I had to cancel it because I moved into a house where cable is included in my rent, and I'm unable to mount a dish.

If I hook my cable line into my 9220's "cable in" input, I can find all the analog channels, but I can't watch any of them because I don't have a dish hooked up. When I try to watch TV, it tries to find a satellite signal, and it wont let me access the guide.

Is there any way to bypass this, and just watch the cable channels? I'd love to be able to use the 9220's PVR functions. I don't care about HD at this point.

Any suggestions?

What you are trying to do will not work.

1. The off-air tuner will only receive channels 2-13 and the UHF channels 14-69 (not the cable 14-69)

2. The PVR functions will not work with the off-air tuner, unless it is a digital signal.

 

[DiscoRage]

Crud, thanks.

Any idea where I can get a Rogers 8300HD for cheaper than what Rogers sells it for? I can't seem to find any on ebay or craigslist. I'm in Toronto.