said by Eat Me 
:said by jmn1207 :said by acs12798 :Hooray, we get more channels....now we can have every HD channel crammed with 3 more per QAM.
Do they have the bandwidth available, or will quality have to be compromised?
If you look at lyngesat, many channels are already 3 per transponder anyway from the satellite. Some cable providers even have to pad their QAMs with extra bits to fill up the extra space.
So don't think that 3 per QAM automatically means "worse than FiOS" because FiOS gets it from the same place.
This has been discussed at length in the 
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