INTERESTING UPDATE
Well, things have improved a bit; first I tried what Zool first suggested.
I took the cable box out of the scenario. I unpugged the co ax cable going into the box, and plugged it directly into the TV on Antannae A on back of the TV.
Then I added the cable channels on there.
Now before there was absolutly no video feed; the message I received was the channel was going to be available shortly. Had that since Wednesday; Charter never suggested doing anything but the power off and unplug. They also never gave any bias as to what is wrong; my theory was the Box, but they offered nothing as far as to what they thought.
NOW I can get all of the channels that I can receive without the box, but they get in at about 33% visibility. Hear the sound perfectly.
IF I'm reading this right, it does sound like it's the Cable Box then ? And the channels are probably coming in about as good as they can ?
It's surely an improvement. At least I can partially watch football now.
Thanks all for input, and any further ideas are appreciated as well
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