My parents have moved into an assisted living facility that provides Mediacom cable to residents over QAM. I have a channel list that the manager pulled off the web for me. Over the last year during my visits, I’ve tried to understand the service so I can keep things as simple as possible for my parents. To date I have tried 3 TVs and 1 dedicated tuner with mixed results.
-10+ old Westinghouse TV - scans an finds ~ 1000 channels. About 800 are blank. Some mapping issues.
-Old LG TV - seems to do the best. Ignores blank channels and gets most channel
- New Roku TCL TV - finds 95 channels. No blanks but misses a bunch of channels in the sports channel area.
-today I tried a tuner I got off eBay. Behaves like the TCL but I have some more control of the channel list. Says I can manually add channels by RF frenquency number.
How can I get a new TV working with his setup? From reading my understanding is colleges, dorms, hospitals, etc commonly support cable over QAM. Ok great but who supports the users? My parents don’t have a dedicated account to request support on from Mediacom. The people who run the facility really have no idea on the technical side of what is being provided.
Can anyone here point me to some resources to figure this out? Recently my dad spent a night in the hospital. The bell finally went off that I think the hospital, rehab unit, and assisted living facilities are using the same setup.
Any tips or ideas?
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