jrandeck wrote: QAM =

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July 25, 2011 at 6:20 pm #4998
phoneguyinpgh

    [quote=jrandeck]

    QAM = digital cable.  Most QAM tuners such as the Hauppauge 1850 record only unencrypted QAM which generally limits you to your local channels.   I thought at at one point Verizon sent all of their channels in the clear, but that might have changed, or I might be mistaken, so there’s a risk for this type of tuner.  On the other hand, they’re inexpensive. 

    DCT = Digital Cable Card Tuner.  This is the only type of tuner that can decrypt encrypted cable channels (encrypted QAM). 

    Hope that helps.

     

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    I am not sure about all Verizon areas, but, I just installed a 2nd Ceton tuner card.  I do not have the cable card from Verizon for it yet (placed the order today, scheduled for friday afternoon).  I set everything up and tried to tune a local channel but, No Joy.  So it would appear that even the local channels are blocked on the Ceton card. 

    Several years ago I tried a tuner that I have for my laptop that does ATSC (off the air) and clear QAM and it was able to tuner the local channels and the music choice channels surpizingly.  Might be that the Ceton needs a cable card to work period.