Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but here goes...
I'm a customer of Charter in St. Louis, MO. I have their Expanded Basic cable.
I have a coax cable that comes into the house. The cable goes into a little splitter
and runs coax to 3 televisions. Each television is fairly new. They all have digital tuners
for over the air antenna television. Sometimes I have disconnected the coax and
hooked up an antenna to receive over the air local programs that aren't on my
expanded basic cable channels. I've also noticed on my tvs that when hooked up
to the Expanded Basic coax cable I receive some digital channels. Their numbers
are usually in the 100s with a dash and aonother number. These channels are
mostly repeats of channels I get with a regular number. Example: My local FOX
affiliate is channel 2 and also channel 105-3. I'm guessing 2 is analog and 105-3
is digital. I do not have Charter internet or phone. Just Expanded Basic cable TV.
Now Charter is going all digital. I don't know a lot of the technical terms or how it
works and would like to learn what to do. I see an ad on Charter saying I may need
a set top converter box but I don't know how to tell if I need one or not.
I've gone to the Charter website but haven't been able to find something that
could tell me what to do and I don't understand all the digital terms and equipment.
I have questions:
- Is there a place where a not too technically smart person like me could read about what exactly Expanded Basic customers should do?
- When Charter switches to all digital will the signal still come in through the coax?
- If the signal comes in through the coax can I keep it connected directly to my TVs
or will I need to put a converter box in between the coax and my TV?
- Is it one converter box per TV or would one converter box do for me whole house.
I have 3 TVs connected to the coax.
If anyone would have time to help me understand how this will work and what to do
I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
SteveC
St. Louis, MO
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