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Question about Rogers Basic Cable and External TV Tuner
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Post 1 made on Friday February 28, 2014 at 07:47
thal2
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Please help! I have searched for hours and just cannot find or seem to understand the solution I need.

I have Basic Rogers cable, no external cable box, no upgraded cable services, just the basic $38.00 a month. Currently the COAX cable is directly screwed into my Plasma TV that has ATSC, NTSC and QAM built in tuners). I don't know which tuner is being used, but all I do is watch the basic 35 or so channels on the TV. I want this same set up in the basement with my projector the ability to watch these 35 or so channels.

All I want to do is do the same thing with my projector, which means I need an external TV Tuner box but have no idea what to look for.

I just need to know what to look for because I cannot tell what signal/signals are coming in through my basic Rogers cable now without any box.

Do I need an ATSC, NTSC or QAM tuner or combination of them? Thanks!
Post 2 made on Friday February 28, 2014 at 19:35
Daniel Tonks
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NTSC analog, AKA what you'd get in an old VCR.

However, I honestly wouldn't bother buying anything because Rogers is slowly deleting all analog channels (even on basic cable), and pretty soon you're not going to be able to watch anything without a Rogers box (and no, QAM and ATSC tuners won't help you).

Rogers does offer a "free" digital box that will give you basic digital cable. You might want to look into that avenue.
OP | Post 3 made on Saturday March 1, 2014 at 08:14
thal2
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Thanks for the input it does make sense. I guess my last question then would be since I have not finished the media room yet, I could get a the free rogers box then maybe route that through a digital splitter box of some kind so I could get the signal on both my TV and projector since I could still run the COAX to all rooms? Again, I would not care about any pay per view type channels so would that work or is the Rogers box scrambled to the point that you are forced to have a box for each TV or projector because of this?
Post 4 made on Saturday March 1, 2014 at 18:56
Daniel Tonks
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Rogers Digital is all encrypted, which is why you need one of their tuner boxes for every display.

I get the impression you're asking if you can split the OUTPUT of the Rogers box to multiple displays, and the answer to that is... no, probably not how you'd like. In fact, now that I think more on it, that free box also isn't going to work for your projector, as it outputs its signal on RF channel 3 - which still requires an NTSC tuner to receive. There's no RCA-style outputs.

So, I guess finding an old VCR or something with a good quality analog tuner might be a reasonable way to go for now, since those are practically free at this point. You MIGHT be able to talk Rogers into at least 1 free basic cable box (one up on the actual free box) since that would have an RCA output you could almost certainly hook directly up to your projector.
Post 5 made on Tuesday March 4, 2014 at 17:29
Nueatit
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Suggest wait and see what and when Rogers does any switch out. In the meantime you can use a VCR with composite out.

New digital boxes will surely have composite or HDMI out. Then look at what is needed, convertors are readily available, HDMI to composite ect. You can always feed composite into VCR and use its RF 3 or 4 output. Lots of options, just wait.


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