If you use decent cable, you'll get the services you should be getting. If you use the cable of the gods sprinkled with fairy dust, you will still get the service you pay for. If you want more, you'll have to do something illegal Very informative and well written post! Quite interesting and nice topic chosen for the post. Nice blog to know info Thanks for sharing this, can you guide about Mediacom pay to everyone. Post a Comment. Oct 8, Hacking Digital Cable. Repost from article I did over at Rocket City Hackers Save money by using a QAM tuner to get HD local channels and anything else your cable provider left unencrypted including your neighbor's on demand purchases I have been wanting to get rid of directv.
The one thing that stops me is live sporting events, news, etc. This made it somewhat reasonable to get cable internet alone without bundling in phone or digital cable. This leaves me looking for a way to get at least HD local channels for free. QAM Tuning, what is it? Straight from Wikipedia, QAM stands for quadrature amplitude modulation, the format by which digital cable channels are encoded and transmitted via cable television providers. Cable companies can encrypt these channels so that only the digital cable box or cable card can decrypt these channels.
Someone save the poor fools. Money was involved, that is clear. Now my remote that came with the TV is useless and I have an extra box to hide — that I am paying the electricity to run! I bought a big antenna for my roof. We are slaves to the media. Not me! Same here. Comcast customers had warnings via letters.. Members of Broadband for America Red: A company or group actively engaging in anti-consumer lobbying, opposes Net Neutrality, supports Internet Overcharging, belongs to […].
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Hong Kong remains bullish on broadband. BendBroadband, a small provider serving central Oregon, breathlessly announced the imminent launch of new higher speed broadband service for its customers after completing an upgrade to DOCSIS 3. We better be […]. Stop the Cap! Woe to those who get in the way. Funny part is the FCC still requires that any device called a TV must include the clear QAM tuner for digital TV, even though none of the providers will be using that tuner standard eventually.
Only setups like universities, hotels and others that run their own internal TV network will use the clear QAM. Just plug in TV and scan. It make sense to require a qam tuner. Thats what allows people to use over the air via antenna. Thanks telcodad. Most manufactures have included Clear QAM tuners as well though on their TV's though that may stop once everything is encrypted and they see there is really no market for QAM in the clear. The only place I have seen ATSC only is in digital converter boxes that people used the government coupons for.
The other market now is for "Monitors" that are TV's without the tuners but all the video inputs and other connections like network built in. Forgo the tuners as most people will never use them as everything needs a box or a dongle plugged in. QAM tuners should be more like cable modems so you don't need a special card to communicate. The provider could authenticate the MAC address to their system like they do with cable modems that are already on the same network.
It's interesting to see what Google has done with Sage TV and how they have integrated it into Google fiber. Cabale support is there but requires too much setup for most non-tech folks. I know in Atlanta, Comcast began encrypting all of their channels last year, so now nothing is available in clear QAM. Which is why I now have a nice little flat-panel antenna in my closet to pick up the local channels. And the OTA signal is even better quality than what is delivered by Comcast.
I also recently read that Google was going to be open sourcing the Sage TV platform that they bought which is the underpinnings for Goggle Fiber's TV service. It works with Clear QAM but is a pain to get the channel mapping setup correctly. Most commented news last week [43] Happy New Year! For starters, the company will no longer have to send a technician out to manually disconnect the lines of non-paying customers.
And Comcast will also be able to limit the number of TVs that customers connect to its service, collecting per-TV fees for extra digital adapters that will now be necessary. But the biggest benefit to Comcast might be the elimination of the free HD programming that its Limited Basic service currently provides. The same Comcast representative I spoke to told me that customers need to order adapters either 30 days before encryption or days after in order to qualify for the free offer period.
Those QAM users can get up to two free digital adapters and these customers are not limited to standard definition adapters. Also, there is no HD Technology fee for Limited Basic customers — that fee is only assessed on higher-tier cable packages. Shawn Farner is a Harrisburg-based tech blogger who has been involved in online media for over eight years. He covers consumer electronics, web companies, and gaming.
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