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Brett_H · 02-20-2004, 03:10 PM

All,

Here's my problem: last Friday we finally made the switch to digital cable. It';s through Adelphia, and they set us up with a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 3100 (standard def.) box. It's got a COAX digital output on it, so I ASSumed that it would output a digital signal. I went through the hookup to my HK 510 receiver and was stumped for about a half an hour as to why I couldn't get the digital signal to be recognized. I tried hooking up the analog cables and those worked. I had the input assigned correctly on my receiver and everything. Finally, I tried some other channels, and it was then that I realized that the box only puts out a digital signal for channels > 100. Seems that those below that are still analog.

My problem is that the receiver won't automatically switch to the digital input when it senses one, it has to be reconfigured through the on screen menu each time you want to switch from analog->digital. So for now, I'm only using the analog cables, thus missing out on any programming that might be DD encoded.

Does anyone know a way around this? Can the cable box be set to output a digital signal for all channels, or is that akin to a A->D conversion which is out of it's league? If not, can the HK receiver be set to auto-switch between analog and digital for a given input depending on what signal it's seeing?

Thanks,
-Brett.

PS - Another random question about the box and the programming guide, but tis might be provider specific: can you remove channels from the guide's lineup? I could easily cut the list (and therefore the time it takes me to scroll) in half if I could weed out channels we'll never watch. I figured out how to set up the "favorites" list, but that doesn't seem to do anything other than let me cycle through that list.

02-20-2004, 03:10 PM	#1 of 5
Brett_H Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Local Time: 04:22 AM Local Date: 11-23-2008 Posts: 361	Scientific Atlanta Explorer 3100 questions All, Here's my problem: last Friday we finally made the switch to digital cable. It';s through Adelphia, and they set us up with a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 3100 (standard def.) box. It's got a COAX digital output on it, so I ASSumed that it would output a digital signal. I went through the hookup to my HK 510 receiver and was stumped for about a half an hour as to why I couldn't get the digital signal to be recognized. I tried hooking up the analog cables and those worked. I had the input assigned correctly on my receiver and everything. Finally, I tried some other channels, and it was then that I realized that the box only puts out a digital signal for channels > 100. Seems that those below that are still analog. My problem is that the receiver won't automatically switch to the digital input when it senses one, it has to be reconfigured through the on screen menu each time you want to switch from analog->digital. So for now, I'm only using the analog cables, thus missing out on any programming that might be DD encoded. Does anyone know a way around this? Can the cable box be set to output a digital signal for all channels, or is that akin to a A->D conversion which is out of it's league? If not, can the HK receiver be set to auto-switch between analog and digital for a given input depending on what signal it's seeing? Thanks, -Brett. PS - Another random question about the box and the programming guide, but tis might be provider specific: can you remove channels from the guide's lineup? I could easily cut the list (and therefore the time it takes me to scroll) in half if I could weed out channels we'll never watch. I figured out how to set up the "favorites" list, but that doesn't seem to do anything other than let me cycle through that list.