MC Detects Input type but no channels

So I recently installed an ATI HD 650. Install and everything went fine, I downloaded Beyond TV and it works flawlessly, only problem with it is that is a trial that expires in a few more days here and I am trying to find a solution that works and I already have - like WMC.

With MC I can scan for a device, it detects my Digital Input, I have just a coax cable running to my tuner. After doing that it scans for channels but it finds nothing. I tried doing thing manually with MC and I was able to get it to take the normal channels that were like 55-1xx - like 57-1xx. The only problem with this is that my Digital channels (what I really want) are channels like 55-1xxx and MC doesn't 'allow' me to manually add a channel with more then 3 digits after the dash.

Has anyone run into this or is there anything else I can do for it to detect the channels?

Thanks,

Josh

A cable co. provided Set Top Box would be the ideal solution.

A cable co. provided Set Top Box would be the ideal solution.

Uhh... I have an HD box, there is no coax output so that wouldn't work. And the whole point of this is to get TV on my computer with out a box.

If there is a way to manually add more then the 55-1xxx channels in MC that I think would work although I can't find a way to remove the 3 digit cap or get around it.

I don't think I mentioned that in my first post.

I understand that most of the channels are encrypted and I don't get most of them but the basic channels should still be available in HD and SD.

With Beyond TV I do pick up all of those channels (about 40) and as I said I tried to manually add a couple of those channels with MC and it picked them up. But I still can't get the HD channels due to the limit on the channels (it only takes 3 digits after the - in the channel number)

Alpha7 said:

I don't think I mentioned that in my first post.

I understand that most of the channels are encrypted and I don't get most of them but the basic channels should still be available in HD and SD.

With Beyond TV I do pick up all of those channels (about 40) and as I said I tried to manually add a couple of those channels with MC and it picked them up. But I still can't get the HD channels due to the limit on the channels (it only takes 3 digits after the - in the channel number)

Have you tried to manually edit each channel?

WMC>Tasks>TV>Guide>Edit Channels>click on channel>

Change the # to a 3 digit number. This will now also be what is displayed in the guide.

Edit Listings - choose the right one by scrolling through the list to match the channel