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Message: [QUOTE="Patrick D, post: 13587366"] I LOVE my media centers; I have two of them. One older one with dual analog tuners, and one I bought more recently with analog and digital tuner. I LOVE these machines; unfortunately with Comcast switching over to digital I am totally unaware of what I should be doing. I donâ€™t not want the IR blaster (this is why I don't have HDTV or satellite and I am happy not having either of these). I just want these media centers to be able to listen to the cable signal. Now it seems that Comcast is still pushing a few analog signals through as my analog tune iis picking up a handful of channels. I called Comcast and asked them if they had a converter where my Media Center could still tune the channels for both analog and digital (i.e. without an IR blaster) and they said yes. I go their equipment and they were wrong. This does not work as you have to use the IR blaster. It seems to me that my media center with the digital tuner should be able to "tune" "digital" channels. Right now it detects no signal. My guess is that this is because I haven't asked them to "activate" my digital service (as I would entirely lose signal on one my media centers). Question #1: Will my media center with the digital tuner "just work" if I activate my digital signal with Comcast? Will it tune the channel? Can they activate it without me plugging in yet another box from them? Please tell me I don't need to use an IR blaster. Question #2: For my media center with the analog tuner, can I replace it with a digital tuner, or is there some dependency on the CPU that is likely not accounted for in my 2004 series HP media center. For both of these, will I ever return to dual tuning? You help is apprecated in advance. [/QUOTE]

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