[EdV]

Here’s what the problem is:

Prior to the Comcast change, your DVD recorder was connected directly to the Comcast cable coming into the room. Your DVD recorder had a built in tuner that could select any channel between 02 an 99 when it wanted to record a program.

With the change over, the Comcast cable coming into the room has encoded those channels digitally and your DVD recorder doesn’t understand that format. Instead the little converter box is placed between cable coming in and your DVD recorder and converts the digital back to a signal that the DVD understands. But it always outputs that signal on channel 3 or 4 only.

Although it is possible to have a DVD player send an infrared remote control signal to the Comcast box to get it to switch to the appropriate channel when it wants to record, I doubt that your recorder has that capability.

Of course if you do spring for the Comcast DVR, you can connect it to your DVD recorder and selectively burn programs to DVDs for archival when you want to.

Additional Note: Comcast may still be passing channels 2-24 (broadcast network channels) in the old analog format, so you may still be able to record them using a T connector.