My dad just got a new 19" Samsung HDTV for the kitchen. We don't have any extra boxes, so it's just hooked up directly to the cable line old school. Our house gets HD & DVR service.
Anyway we hook up the tv and tell it to autoprogram the channels. First off, it finds TONS of channels, most were just "multicast" stations (80-5, 90-4, etc.) Most of these were just duplicates of other channels such as our locals and other random stations, but at least 2 of them were movie stations (or seemed to present themselves as such since the info showed "MPAA Rated R"). The scarier part was that it was not HBO or SHO or things like that. Or if they were, they were not showing what the guide on the other Box equipped said they were. I could not figure out what these stations were since nothing on the guide mentioned they were being shown (if it helps it was around 1 or 2 pm and the movies shown were V for Vendetta and Die Hard 2.) These were in the high multicast numbers.
Speaking of multicasting, the tv also picked up Local HD stations as if they were done OTA. The problem is that there was no antenna hooked up to the television. All the local HD stations came in, and they were set up like they were on OTA (I know this because I use it at my own house.) For example, our CBS affiliate is channel 3, but it is mapped to channel 2 on the cable. If you go to the "next" channel when you are on 3 on the cable, it shoots you to 3-1, the CBS 3 HD station. How could I get these signals when there was no antenna hooked up, and in addition how could it directly correspond to their "real" channel numbers? It is also worth noting that we got stations on local HD that we would not be able to get OTA without a powerful outdoor antenna, and even then it would be questionable.
We do eventually plan on getting an HD box for this tv, but does anyone know what could cause this sort of behavior?
Anyway we hook up the tv and tell it to autoprogram the channels. First off, it finds TONS of channels, most were just "multicast" stations (80-5, 90-4, etc.) Most of these were just duplicates of other channels such as our locals and other random stations, but at least 2 of them were movie stations (or seemed to present themselves as such since the info showed "MPAA Rated R"). The scarier part was that it was not HBO or SHO or things like that. Or if they were, they were not showing what the guide on the other Box equipped said they were. I could not figure out what these stations were since nothing on the guide mentioned they were being shown (if it helps it was around 1 or 2 pm and the movies shown were V for Vendetta and Die Hard 2.) These were in the high multicast numbers.
Speaking of multicasting, the tv also picked up Local HD stations as if they were done OTA. The problem is that there was no antenna hooked up to the television. All the local HD stations came in, and they were set up like they were on OTA (I know this because I use it at my own house.) For example, our CBS affiliate is channel 3, but it is mapped to channel 2 on the cable. If you go to the "next" channel when you are on 3 on the cable, it shoots you to 3-1, the CBS 3 HD station. How could I get these signals when there was no antenna hooked up, and in addition how could it directly correspond to their "real" channel numbers? It is also worth noting that we got stations on local HD that we would not be able to get OTA without a powerful outdoor antenna, and even then it would be questionable.
We do eventually plan on getting an HD box for this tv, but does anyone know what could cause this sort of behavior?
