Southern Geek
Recycles dryer sheets
In the last 2 years, I've bought a couple of very nice LED HDTVs to use in spare bedrooms. The TVs were Cable Ready so that I could just attach coax to the cable outlet to received the local channels in HD via QAM. Starting this month my cable company, BHN, is starting to encrypt all channels following the lead of Comcast, TWC, and other cable companies that started doing this last year after a rule change by FCC. As a result, customers are required to have a Digital Tuning Adapter (a decrypter) connected between the outlet and the TV to receive programming. With this adapter, the Cable Ready feature of the TVs is now useless. I'm thinking that fairly soon, TV manufacturers will cease selling TVs that are "Cable Ready" as cable companies will no longer provide an unencrypted signal compatible with this feature. I know my plan from here on out is to just buy really good monitors with no tuner whatsoever. Feels like 1980s all over again.
[Dont get me started on the fact that I now need 2 remotes to operate the TVs, and that after a year BHN will start changing an additional fee for each of the DTAs.]
[Dont get me started on the fact that I now need 2 remotes to operate the TVs, and that after a year BHN will start changing an additional fee for each of the DTAs.]