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Originally Posted by KarTajan
... I have minimal difference in the reception strength when compared to the regular HDTV's that I have. (1 channel that comes in over the clear QAM on the TV I do not get on the PC, and this is in a rental home with seriously substandard cable lines. Antenna based is only slightly worse than the TV's for the few that I can pull in out of the reception hole I am in)
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You a conflating several issues and are drawing very bad conclusions:
- Obviously, those of us on this forum do not have a wiring diagram for your cable installation. However, the cable that runs from the wall to the TV belongs to the resident. Usually, everything else belongs to the cable provider. It is the cable provider's responsibility to ensure that its paying subscribers receive the service that they are paying for. I certainly would not consider my cable provider to be a paragon of customer service, but it has never failed to ensure that my cabling was working properly. If necessary, then your cable guy will replace all cables and splitters in your home. That is his job.
- Cable uses Clear QAM. OTA digital broadcasts adhere to the ATSC standard. You cannot draw a conclusion about the OTA performance of a device based on its performance with Clear QAM.
- Although they don't do it in all cases, your cable provider is supposed to provide equally high quality signals on all cable channels. If you have a device that receives some channels by not all available channels, then the device has an issue.
Based on the information that you have given, then I would say that
Electron is correct. Your PCTV tuner is substandard.