Getting Digital Channels on my PVR-500

[Dean_H]

I had not been drinking last night when after I got my HD PVR hooked up and started to channel surf I noticed the following:

HD PVR was recording on channel 113 (cable)
Pulled up the guide and asked to watch channel 119
Cable box didn't change channels, but I started watch channel 119

I immediately went to the setup screen to see what tuner was being used and Sage said that one of the PVR 500 tuners was recording channel 119 while the HD PVR was recording channel 113.

I thought that I had stumbled onto something interesting, so I updated the channels for the PVR 500 tuners (basically turning them from standard analog cable to digital cable) so that Sage would use them to record these digital shows.

I tried to show the family what I had discovered after this, and I have not been able to make this happen again.

Can someone please tell me that I'm not crazy....I swear that this is what I saw.

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by Dean_H

I had not been drinking last night when after I got my HD PVR hooked up and started to channel surf I noticed the following:

HD PVR was recording on channel 113 (cable)
Pulled up the guide and asked to watch channel 119
Cable box didn't change channels, but I started watch channel 119

I immediately went to the setup screen to see what tuner was being used and Sage said that one of the PVR 500 tuners was recording channel 119 while the HD PVR was recording channel 113.

I thought that I had stumbled onto something interesting, so I updated the channels for the PVR 500 tuners (basically turning them from standard analog cable to digital cable) so that Sage would use them to record these digital shows.

I tried to show the family what I had discovered after this, and I have not been able to make this happen again.

Can someone please tell me that I'm not crazy....I swear that this is what I saw.

Sorry, but unless 119 is in your analog spectrum, it is not possible for the PVR500 to record anything in digital format. The only way it could record "digital" channels is if it was hooked to an STB and had the composite/svideo connectors hook to it. Direct coax not possible.

[Dean_H]

I know, I know. But I sweat that is what I saw. I can't reproduce it no matter what I try....

I should have taken a picture.