“Toss out the $100 all-in-one remote, put the TV on channel 3 (or 4) and use the chintzy DCA remote, without closed-captioning support. It is prone to interference and signal degradation,” he reports to the Kennebec Journal. The DCA quality is worse in side by side analog comparison. “It’s unwatchable, in my opinion, on any television.”ĭobbelaere considers the resulting picture from his DTA sub-standard definition. “It’s absolutely awful with wavy lines in the background, grainy picture quality, and a picture that resembles a VCR tape,” he reports to us.Īdair said he wouldn’t even bother with the device on his 13 inch kitchen television. It’s absolute garbage.”Īdair reports the DTA Time Warner supplies significantly degrades picture quality. “We tried their digital adapter for about five minutes, and that is all it took for us to take it back. “They have encrypted the basic cable lineup so QAM reception is not going to work, assuming you can even figure out how to program it in the first place,” writes Stop the Cap! reader Bill Adair. This DVR delivers 'Sub-standard definition television' Indeed, Stop the Cap! has heard from several customers in Maine who report Time Warner Cable’s new digital conversion program even impacts customers with digital tuner-equipped sets, forcing them to either watch a downgraded analog signal or upgrade to a digital set top box. Cable TV is going to be password protected.'”

HDTVs with digital tuner do not get a pass. “Time Warner Cable staff said the digital cable adapters (DCA) are mandatory, for everything, unless you have a digital cable box per device. “They can cut service costs, forgo capacity upgrades and charge indefinitely per device, leaving consumers with inconveniences, obstacles and surcharges,” Dobbelaere says. Customers of Time Warner Cable in Maine preparing for the cable company’s all-digital conversion that will eventually impact every customer nationwide are reporting more problems with the equipment the cable company is supplying to those without set top cable boxes.įrank Dobbelaere from Augusta is disgusted with the digital box conversion, and is calling the cable company “anti-consumer.”

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