Guess this is more random than raarrgghhhh
Stupid FCC allowing limited basic cable encryption...
It starts in 2 weeks here, next week I was going to look into ordering an HD DTA. Come home from work yesterday and there's a box I wasn't expecting, from Comcast. They sent out an SD DTA. Off to the service center today and exchanged it for an HD one, pretty painless other than the half hour of driving around snowbanks. Get that set up and activated and it's skipping the HD channels. Go to the website and into chat, 10 or so minutes of that and the guy reprograms the box so I can get all the channels I'm supposed to. Also fairly painless but annoying just for having to do it.
So I've got HD picture now but the power wasting, can't turn off, unnessesary box removes the surround sound, even over HDMI it only does stereo. Was so much easier just using the QAM tuner on my TV, where I had HD and surround sound...
Ok, maybe more rargh than random after all.....