WinTV-HVR-1600 setup help, please!

[Saker]

I'm completely at a loss how to properly set this up... I'm in Pennsylvania USA here with god-awful Comcast as a service "provider" for cable. I did see exactly 1 channel #3 (at some point fiddling with settings) My regular HDTV is digital cable with a set-top box, apparently for other tv's in the house (if I had any) I need either another set-top box, or a lesser box Comcast "Digital Transport Adapter" which I have gotten off them Motorola DTA100/2305/000 (f/g no. 555117-001) and attached. cable from the wall to a splitter, 1 to cable modem, other to comcast dta then to WinTV-HVR-1600. I can see channels using the tv cards included software (WinTV7), but it has no tv guide... I have gotten the TV guide feature in gbpvr to work, and can hear internet radio fine. I've read through the posted "initial setup guides", but some of the screens are different, and well I'm obviously getting something wrong since I can't get any channels to play.

WinTV-HVR-1600

Windows 7 RC Version 6.1.7100
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Board model: X48-DQ6
Version: x.x
BIOS vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS version: F7, Release date: 07/17/2008
Chipset: Intel X48
CPU:Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Corsair 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Diamond Radeon HD4850 512M PCI Express 2.0

[donschjr]

Pull the cable out of the adapter and hook it directly to the tuner card. In my area of Pa we still have analog for extended basic and Qam for the same channels. You'll need to scan for clear qam and map your channels for the digital ones and the analog channels will go to the correct numbers them selves. Using clear Qam you will get your local HD channels.

[Saker]

Pull the cable out of the adapter and hook it directly to the tuner card. In my area of Pa we still have analog for extended basic and Qam for the same channels. You'll need to scan for clear qam and map your channels for the digital ones and the analog channels will go to the correct numbers them selves. Using clear Qam you will get your local HD channels.

Well (with WinTv) attached it directly to the ATSC/QAM connection, got Qam channels, am watching now as I write this, no analog showed up (but there are a nice number of QAM, so...). Not great quality picture, that's a disappointment, good sound quality though. Haven't gotten it to work with GBPVR yet. Soooo many settings! I'm obviously getting some combination wrong.

[donschjr]

You have to map the channels in GBPVR. I'd suggest you read the wiki.