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adventures in cable
We got digital cable this morning. It turns out that all signal must go through the converter box, which is also the tuner, so no taping two different shows at the same time. I asked about it, and the guy said that they could send a different person out with A/B switches and stuff to fix that. I said I could just go to Radio Shack and buy the equipment if he could tell me what to do. He couldn't, unfortunately, and it looks non-intuitive. (I think some of his information was also incorrect.) So anyway, it turns out that AT&T has a standard price for fixing this problem, and it's less than the cost of the equipment (let alone my lost hair), and they can send someone over tomorrow (Dani will be home but I won't), so I'll let them have a crack at it. I gave Dani a detailed tour of the equipment today and watched him write things down. :-)
The installer said he's never seen a setup as weird as ours before. I said it was the doing of the folks at Circuit City, and I wasn't going to mess with something that worked. Entertainment-center wiring can be weird sometimes. I wonder what state it will be in tomorrow. Fortunately, everything this week is a rerun (though West Wing is one we haven't seen), so there's wiggle room.
Afterthought: the installation person told me both that all signal must go through the converter and that a system of splitters and A/B switches could solve the problem without additional converters. Obviously, one of these statements is wrong. Anyway, someone is supposed to show up today and, for a very small amount of money, make it work. We'll see what happens.
The installer said he's never seen a setup as weird as ours before. I said it was the doing of the folks at Circuit City, and I wasn't going to mess with something that worked. Entertainment-center wiring can be weird sometimes. I wonder what state it will be in tomorrow. Fortunately, everything this week is a rerun (though West Wing is one we haven't seen), so there's wiggle room.
Afterthought: the installation person told me both that all signal must go through the converter and that a system of splitters and A/B switches could solve the problem without additional converters. Obviously, one of these statements is wrong. Anyway, someone is supposed to show up today and, for a very small amount of money, make it work. We'll see what happens.