AIW 9600 PRO TV TUNER PROBLEM

[george]

Out of the blue, tv tuner lost most channels. I use my comcast cable and
never had a problem before (1yr). No driver upgrades or chnages prior to the
tuner crapping out. Now the tuner recognizes maybe 10 out of 100 channels
and those are far from having good reception. swapped cables with my tv so I
know the cable is good. No other probs with the card. Anyone had similar
probs.??? Time for a new AIW??? ...hope not this thing is only a year old!

tx

 

[tk]

Could be your cable signal? I am a Comcast customer and they have said
that soon all will de digital, maybe that's where you are going. Then our
tuners are worthless. ( I have a AIW 9600XT) Do you have to use their
converters on you tv
sets for the channels your AIW can't tune?

 

[Good Man]

Could be your cable signal? I am a Comcast customer and they have
said that soon all will de digital, maybe that's where you are going.
Then our tuners are worthless.

re: digital cable

while cable companies will indeed be providing digital cable, your tuner
will never be worthless. you need a digital cable box to receive the
digital cable, but if you don't have a digital cable box, you get regular
analog signals.

perhaps the OP didn't pay his cable bill? or accidentally has his source
on sVHS/Composite instead of cable?

 

[gmg888]

tx for the replies but no, it's not the signal, i have only straight
expanded basic chanel 2-99. I "Y" the comcast in line, one side to my
old rca tv/vcr and the other side to my aiw9600pro. have swapped the
cables and the tv works with either side. i this case the tuner
autoscan does not see the channels although i can see a badly ghosted
image of some channels if i tune to them manually. the channels the
tuner does see appear to be either scrambled have extremely weak
signals. verified the source many times.

borrowed an old aiw 128 pro from a friend. will install it and see if
the tuner works.

thanks again for the advice

 

[SL]

This conversation is about as close to my situation Ive seen to date. I
agree with the poster. I have the TV Wonder VE, and the same thing
happened. Once we went "digital" in my neighborhood, the tuner "doesnt
work". I have Adelphia. I do not subscribe to digital (only basic
analog), but do use the cable modem. I too am splintered off from my cable
modem. I have even run a line staight from the trunk (located about 40 feet
from my house). Still the same result. I then called Adelphia. They dont
know, nor care. I used to work for Comcast, so Im familiar with cable. The
cable hookup is not the problem. Plus, the person on the telephone line
usually has 0.0 hours experience in the field.

I have posted fruitlessly in this ng and others. Thats why I agree with the
original poster. I get a severe ghosting from one channel to the next.
Thats if Im lucky to get anything in the first place. Adelphia claims
there should be zero interference between the analog signal and the digital.
But interference is exactly what im getting?! So, I hook it from my generic
VCR and put in a tape to check the analog coaxial signal...presto! The
tuner is tuning, but the signal is not. Granted, I can only check channel
3,5,7 and 9. But it does work.

SL

 

[tk]

There wont be any analog signals soon that was my point.

 

[tk]

There wont be any analog signals soon that was my point.

 

[tk]

re: digital cable

while cable companies will indeed be providing digital cable, your tuner
will never be worthless. you need a digital cable box to receive the
digital cable, but if you don't have a digital cable box, you get regular
analog signals.

There wont be any analog signals soon that was my point.

 

[tk]

re: digital cable

while cable companies will indeed be providing digital cable, your tuner
will never be worthless. you need a digital cable box to receive the
digital cable, but if you don't have a digital cable box, you get regular
analog signals.

There wont be any analog signals soon that was my point.

 

[tk]

re: digital cable

while cable companies will indeed be providing digital cable, your tuner
will never be worthless. you need a digital cable box to receive the
digital cable, but if you don't have a digital cable box, you get regular
analog signals.

Soon there will be no more analog signals, that was my point.