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OFF-AIR BROADCAST CHANNELS

Bardstown Cable currently carries available off-air digital broadcasts from the Louisville television market in an unscrambled digital format know as QAM. The following are the requirements for customers acquiring our available off-air (Louisville) HD channels for free:

  • An HD television with a QAM tuner.(some older models come with a CableCARD slot; this can alleviate the need for a set-top box to receive the non-braodcast HD channels, like ESPN, etc.).
    • (some older models come with a CableCARD slot; this can alleviate the need for a set-top box to receive the non-braodcast HD channels, like ESPN, etc.).
  • A properly wired outlet (to ensure our higher frequencies pass)

If your set has a QAM tuner but no CableCARD slot, then you'll be able to receive the Louisville digital broadcast digital channels but will need a set-top box to receive the remainder of our scrambled (encrypted) non-broadcast HD programming.
If your HD television does not have a QAM tuner, you will need an external receiver of some sort to receive any HD programming,although most all current televisions are manufactured with a QAM tuner.

NON-BROADCAST CHANNELS (HD VALUE PACK)
Select non-broadcast HD programming is currently available in our "HD Value Pack" (ESPN, ESPN2, A&E, History, TNT, Outdoor Channel, Food Network, HGTV, etc. See our whole HD lineup at http://www.bardstowncable.net/cabletv/basic.shtml ). This package is free to Expanded Basic subscribers. However, where we are required to scramble these channels, rental of equipment from Bardstown Cable will be necessary to decrypt the HD Value Pack. Customers currently have three options for acquiring our available HD channels through Bardstown Cable TV Equipment:

1. HD-DVR Set-Top Rental

  • $9.95/month
  • Requirements:
      -RG6 Quad Shield wiring to Bardstown City Cable specifications**
      -$25.00/$50.00/$100.00 deposit (depending on credit)
  • Includes our available off-air HD and our HD Value Pack
  • Includes a built in Digital Video Recorder
  • Access to Pay-Per-View
  • Interactive Program Guide
  • Functions as a "digital gateway" for Digital Basic, Extended Digital Basic and Premium Channel Multiplexes (also available with additional monthly fees).
  • Contact the Bardstown City Cable Department for install pricing

2. HD Set-Top Rental

  • $6.95/month
  • Requirements:
      -RG6 Quad Shield wiring to Bardstown City Cable specifications**
      -$25.00/$50.00/$100.00 deposit (depending on credit)
  • Includes our available off-air HD and our HD Value Pack
  • Access to Pay-Per-View
  • Interactive Program Guide
  • Functions as a "digital gateway" for Digital Basic, Ext
  • ended Digital Basic and Premium Channel Multiplexes (also available with additional monthly fees).
  • Contact the Bardstown City Cable Department for install pricing


3. CableCARD Rental 1.0

  • $2.00/month
  • Requirements:
      -CableCARD slot in television
      -RG6 Quad Shield wiring to Bardstown City Cable specifications**
      -$25.00/$50.00/$100.00 deposit (depending on credit)
  • Includes our available HD value pack (CableCARD-slot sets by default contain a QAM tuner that will tune available local off-air HD channels without the rental of a CableCARD; see "OFF-AIR BROADCAST CHANNELS" above)
  • DVR Player NOT included
  • Pay-Per-View NOT accessible
  • Interactive Program Guide NOT available
  • Functions as a "digital gateway" for Digital Basic, Extended Digital Basic and Premium Channel Multiplexes (also available with additional monthly fees)
  • Contact the Bardstown City Cable Department for installation costs.


**-Outlets for digital services are required to be RG6 Quad Shield grade and "home-run" back to the cable box on the side of the structure. For wiring questions please contact Bardstown City Cable Department.

HD X-TREME
An additional, for-fee tier of HD programming is available in our HD X-treme tier.  This package contains HD networks that charge some sort of wholesale fee over and above that for to the Standard Definition version (in Expanded Basic, Digital Basic, etc), or is an HD-Only offering, like HD Theater (no corresponding channel in other, non-HD tiers).

  • $6.95 per month
  • Contains:
    • HD Theater
    • Smithsonian
    • MGM
    • UniversalHD
    • FX
    • National Geographic
    • Speed  (with subscription to Extended Digital Basic)

 

 



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