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I recently purchased a HDTV, and hooked up to my existing analog cable. I was surprised to find that my TV picked up several digital channels (109.1 through 109.10; 110.1-110.10,117.x). I was shocked to see naked sex scenes, and oral copulation on channel 110.4 which I blocked. But when I restarted the TV, the same content was displayed on 11.3; I blocked it. But whenever I restarted the TV, the hard corn porn was switched to a different unblocked channel. I called Charter and complained. they said they knew of the channel I was talking about and would completely block the channel so I would never have the problem. But today very similar content showed up on yet another digital channel (110.2). I have small children to protect. Charter has violated their agreement and simply keep switching the hard core content to different channels. Please intervene and correct the situation. I believe that thousands of children are in danger in areas served by Charter Communications.
What you are actually picking up are Video On Demand streams (VOD). Charter is not actively switching the channels so they can pipe porn into your house. The way that On Demand works necessitates that the channels change. Basically what is happening is that someone in your neighborhood has requested that programming. When they request it, Charter finds an available channel to send the content on. So the channel is quite possibly different each time. When the program is done, the channel goes blank, and your tuner does not pick it up.
It is Charter's standard policy to encrypt these program streams so that they cannot be inadvertently picked up by those who do not want them, and I assume since this post is more than 6 months old, that they have done so by now. If they have not, please email me and I will look into the issue further for you.
I will assure you that Charter is not trying to endanger thousands of children in the areas they serve, and actually actively promotes the use of parental controls as a tool. As of a few years back, all TVs are required to have the V-chip installed in them. The V-chip can read a program's rating and block it based on criteria you set. For instance, you can set you TV to block all programs with a TV-14 rating, or all movies rated higher than PG. This would require you to put in a code to view these programs in the first place.
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I had the same problem and contacted Charter. The Charter rep informed me that Charter digital channels do not use decimal places and that the HD TVs have a built in tuner that "may" be picking up satellite channels. They suggested that I contact the company that builds the TV to find out how to disable the tuner.