For anyone in the Tulsa area using a Cablecard tuner and Windows Media Center, you may be having a ton of issues with not getting a lot of channels, etc.
Some background: WMC integrates with Cablecard tuners, but rather than using the channel map pushed by Cox to the cablecard/TA, WMC relies on EPG data it receives from a third party to populate the channel list. You may notice that when you set up a Cablecard, you have to enter your zip code, and select your provider. This is done to get the proper list of channels and guide mappings.
So, I have opened a Data Quality ticket with Microsoft so that they can get this resolved on their end. Please go to this URL and upvote the ticket I created:
https://connect.microsoft.com/site1145/
You will need to log in to a MS Live ID in order to use that site, and possibly click the "Register" link once you have done so to create a forum screen name. Then use the "Feedback" link, and you will see the Tulsa ticket as one of the latest ones. Just upvote it to get their attention.
For the technically inclined, you can use a couple of tools, GuideTool and Guide Editor, to at least get some of your channels back. Guide Editor ( http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=97 ... note that you may need to go into the second or more pages of the thread to find a copy of the tool for your specific OS) will let you create Digital channels in WMC, map them to a guide source, and basically allowed me to go create missing channels so I can get 1002, 1003, etc.
GuideTool is easier to use, but wont let you create new channels, it just lets you edit or delete existing channels. Guide Editor is more powerful, but more complicated to use. But you can use these tools to get your missing channels now, rather than having to wait for Microsoft to get this fixed.
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