I have been on Digital Cable with the Explorer box for about 3 months now and I am also experiencing the two hour thing with the guide. The cable compamy says they are working on it. Yeah right. What a joke. I will be getting the dish network in the spring and losing cable. If digital cable is the cable companies answer to the digital dishes they are in trouble.

I am SHOCKED to learn your cable company would be using Digital cable to simply increase the number of pay per view and premium channels instead of actually improving picture quality. Oh wait, no I'm not. I think you will be very well pleased with the picture quality improvement with a dish. Digital cable uses a much higher compression that either Direct TV or Dish Network, and your local channels are probably still analog, with the extra crappy picture included at no extra charge. Make sure to get a Dolby Digital satellite box. ENJOY!

Local Channels analog? How about 75 channels analog. The only channels digital are the ones that are only available to the cable company in digital format such as ESPN Classic and some of the off the wall Discovery Channels. The only thing surprising to me in all this is the fact I have been dumb enough to pay for this crap.

If the 2 hour problem in the guide refers to the fact that it is always offset by 2 hours, I found a solution which works for me. After pressing on the remote, press the button. This will not only adjust to the current time it also adjusts to the currently viewed channel. If you have a macro capability on your remote you can set up both commands to work automatically. I did this on my Pronto, it works great. P.S. I discovered that my cable company (Adelphia) knows about this, but it depends on which support rep you reach.

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For some reason the command button notations I used in my first response were removed. I'll try again.....

After pressing (Guide) on the remote, press the (C)button.

Sorry for the confuseing first message.

Thanx Ed I will try that macro it's a great idea. But the thing that really bugs me about this digital cable thing is that on my system at least the majority of the channels are analog and in mono. Of course they don't tell you that when you sign up. On the flip side I didn't have to pay any start up costs so I guess i shouldn't b**** too much. It just seems to me that all the satellite channels at least should be in digital and stereo. Thanx again for the hot tip. Butch

Most of my channels are analog and mono as well. What's worse is that I have it connected to a DD receiver, but if the broadcast is not in DD the co-ax is silent. I had to connect the analog audio as well. This means that I must manually switch the receiver input depending upon whether DD is available.
This is what I call "Automation".
I suspect the reason they offer the pseudo-digital at no additional cost is because they then can offer more useless pay channels. Up go the revenues.

Up goes something I can tell you that Ed lol. I may very well go back to basic cable for the broadcast channels and back to C-Band for the cable channels. My 12 year old Kenwood Sat receiver is still working fine with the G.I. Descrambler ( also 12 years old ). The pictures are analog and beat the mini dish any day of the week , audio is digital and in stereo but no DD just PL. Says alot that 12 year old technology still kicks cable's butt.