mscottc
join:2006-07-16
Jersey City, NJ | said by tcope:I've read in the cable forms that once a person stops paying for cable (usually because they move out) that the cable person needs to go out and disconnect it to that apartment. Many times they don't go out right away. If you have been living there for 5 years then this probably won't happen. If it's really cable then enjoy it. No one is going to handcuff you for it. If its a cable connection then you should no see channels with weird looking numbers (123-12). If you see numbers like that then it's OTA digital channels. Actually you are wrong, tcope. Cable companies provide multiple digital programming streams on a channel using a system called QAM. A TV with QAM will receive up to about a dozen digital SD channels or 3-4 HD channels on one QAM channel and they will be labeled something like 88.1, 88.2, 88.3 and so on. Many of those channels, especially the premium channels with be encrypted. However, those that aren't are referred to as Clear QAM and can be picked up by any TV with a digital QAM tuner, which is just about every new TV> |
