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Anyone have a link to the ipcc of the AT&T 5.0 carrier profile? Don't want to update to 3.1 yet as it breaks the jailbreak.
Google "how to fix the economy"
You are so fired Cory...
Oh and I am 50+ miles away from the broadcaster antennas...so getting channels off the air is not very feasible without an expensive outdoor antenna
@Mike: My TV is an HDTV with a digital tuner...I wasn't recieving channels off an antenna. I've always been hooked up to my coax and get cable through my crappy provider. Briefly, I was getting HDTV without a cablebox of any sort. (only when broadcasted though) I am not mistaken. At the time, HD channels were on my TV and a friend's TV.
I've got a question....

I live in a rural area that is monopolized by the world's worst cable company, White County Cable. I subscribe to the basic 100ish channel package. Now our local network stations recently made the digital switch and for a while I was getting free HDTV when it was being broadcasted. Like, I would get channel 8 as normal...but then I'd also get channel 8-1 in HD. Great....but two problems.

1. Recently ALL HD channels dissappeared suddenly. I still get digital network channels like 8-1, 5-1, 4-1, etc but they are blacked out. No HD. Just blank digital channels.
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2. Some of 30s and 40s channels have a bunch of blank digital channels which makes surfing terrible. So if I'm flipping channels, I have to go through 40-1...40-2...40-3...40-4...etc sometimes until 40-20+. Obviously, I could type in the next channel, but that's annoying.

So I guess my question is:

a) Could they be blocking the 'digital' channels so we dont get free HD channels and have to buy the "digital" package? And is that even legal?

b) Why am I getting so many non-sense blank digital channels? Could that be a problem with my signal? I could program the TV to skip those channels but it will literally take me over an hour to go through all of those.

So I bet your wondering why I am asking for cable support here. Well like I said....this is the worst cable company ever. Support is a joke. No one at the company knows what they are talking about. They claim there is no possible way I was getting local HD channels without the "digital package" (which by the way is a joke). I finally gave up explaining how it was possible. So I'm fed up with them and somehow I still pay the bill. Any suggestions?
Only Dr. Emmett Brown can save the economy....
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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