| | Build TVs with Qam tuners They should just build on new TVs with Qam tuners and open up the basic 80 channels Qam channels on the network. People can still just "plug in the cable" and cable company frees up a ton of bandwidth without imposing on the customer a STB. | |
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 rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | Re: Build TVs with Qam tuners How about also enabling consumers to buy cable-compatible digital tuners that convert to analog/composite video?
All this talk about $5/month per TV or $1/month per TV remind me of the days before the TVs were cable compatible. It sucks. | |
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| | If I am correct, the switch to all digital and the dropping of analog is scheduled for sometime within the next 5 years, it is mandated by the FCC that most TVs be built with a digital QAM tuner or no tuner at all.
I may be wrong though, just a thought. | |
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 | | | Re: Build TVs with Qam tuners No, TVs are required to be built with an 8VSB tuner, not a QAM tuner. Some TVs have clear-QAM tuners, but many do not.
Comcast makes this worse by not transmitting program and channel information (PSIP and VCT) on their QAM streams, which is against FCC regs but no one at the FCC seems to care. What this means is that on your clear QAM tuner you don't get the right channel numbers and you don't get schedule information. | |
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| | | | Re: Build TVs with Qam tuners said by russotto:Comcast makes this worse by not transmitting program and channel information (PSIP and VCT) on their QAM streams, which is against FCC regs but no one at the FCC seems to care. What this means is that on your clear QAM tuner you don't get the right channel numbers and you don't get schedule information. Sometime in the past couple of months, the local Comcast has started doing something right. I have a Samsung DLP set and basic analog Comcast service (no STB). I used to have to go searching through all the funky high number sub-channels to find my locals in HD and every month or so they'd be somewhere else.
Now they show up where they should, right next to the SD analog signal.
Not sure what schedule information you are referring to though. | |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by valuepac0:They should just build on new TVs with Qam tuners and open up the basic 80 channels Qam channels on the network. People can still just "plug in the cable" and cable company frees up a ton of bandwidth without imposing on the customer a STB. There already ARE T.V's with QAM tuners but cableco's dont want that, they want those box rental fees!
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Phoenix, AZ
kudos:1 | Re: Build TVs with Qam tuners Not only that, but CableCard 2.0 need to make its way out now. Do they think the poor excuse of CableCard 1.0 is going to work? It doesn't even have the simple feature of the guide.
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