Digital Receiver Needed?

[colinwhipple]

I have a Philips DVDR 3455H Player/Recorder. I can plug the Charter coaxial cable to it and record programs to watch later, but only the first 100 channels Charter provides. To record other channels, including the Science Channel and BBC America, I have to use the Charter digital DVR box.

I have gotten fed up with Charter's price increases and want to cancel their DVR and just use the Philips to record and watch the first 100 channels.

Charter tells me I have to use one of their digital receivers to watch even the first 100 channels, which conflicts with my experience.

Is there some kind of conversion going on, where I will soon be unable to use the Philips?

Colin

 

[moghedien14]

I have a Philips DVDR 3455H Player/Recorder. I can plug the Charter coaxial cable to it and record programs to watch later, but only the first 100 channels Charter provides. To record other channels, including the Science Channel and BBC America, I have to use the Charter digital DVR box.

I have gotten fed up with Charter's price increases and want to cancel their DVR and just use the Philips to record and watch the first 100 channels.

Charter tells me I have to use one of their digital receivers to watch even the first 100 channels, which conflicts with my experience.

Is there some kind of conversion going on, where I will soon be unable to use the Philips?

Colin

The 3455 has an analog tuner only. If Charter is moving all its channels to the digital format, you may need either their set-top box or a digital transport adapter(DTA) in order to keep recording to the 3455. But if Charter is moving to an all-digital format, I would hope that you would get a mailing before that actually happened...

 

[colinwhipple]

I since their official position is that they already provide only digital channels, I am not expecting any notification when they actually eliminate the analog transmissions.

Charter is not big on communicating, except for marketing.