I have a cable company provider that's all HD. Do I need this QAM tuner?
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If they are giving you a Cable box fine. But it does not have a QAM Tuner built in, unless they provide you with an external QAM Tuner.
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Although there aren't many, some cable companies still carry some of their channels in an analog or digital non-QAM format for extra TVs in the house that don't have their own cable box. But those days are gone for most cable companies, or will be changing soon for the few who still do. Most of them are scrambling all the channels or soon will be. You'll need a cable box or will soon if you don't have one. So QAM may be a moot point in the USA. You'll have to plug your TV into the box or a TV antenna.
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If the cable company you subscribe to has a cable box included with the service, the oCOSMO TV will be just fine. If you are just plugging in a coaxial cable into the back of your TV without a cable box, this television will not work. It doesn't have a tuner (QAM) built in (ability to change channels).
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Yes. It is both an ATSC and QAM tunner. It does not however support NTSC. If your have a "clear" digital cable or digital over the air signal it will tune it.
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Exactly. Thanks Zhou. I was about to post this link. According to this page it does have QAM tuner.
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No. You will need one cable "drop" (coax connection) near the computer containing the PCI card, the Comcast cable card (Charter's rate is $2 per month as opposed to the full tuner rate of $7 per month) and a single Tuning Adapter (Charter does not charge for the Tuning Adapter).
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The HDHomeRun can either receive clear Qam or ATSC over the air. If the output from your cable box, is a digital TV signal, clear Qam, output by 75 ohm cable, then it will only tune the channel the cable box is outputting. Hope this helps.
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I connected it to my indoor OTA Antenna and received numerous channels but I experimented a bit by connecting it to my internet cable. I no longer have cable TV, but I do receive some channels with the tuner connected to my internet cable. The QAM Tuner finds a number of channels, which I did not have when I was paying for cable every month. I have several movie channels which I can watch live or just record to my computer hard drive to watch later. It may not work for you but it is worth checking out. I do not receive ABC CBS or NBC this way, but I do receive them using my OTA Antenna.
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YES. You need the Slimline Type to Receive HD Channels unless you don't want these type channels.
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Artie, I'm using Comcast HD as well and have 2 of these on separate sets. Small investment with good results!!
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I purchased the Magnavox HDD 535H and it does have a Qam tuner.Station numbers are unique, not as listed by my provider WOW.
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I can't say for certain. The manual says it has ATSC/NTSC channel coverage and that it has a channel frequency synthesized tuning system. I can't find any reference to a qam tuner.
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A QAM tuner is for digital cable NOT over the air broadcasts, almost all over the air broadcasts have gone to ATSC digital. This TV will accept UNENCRYPTED cable signals
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FMQR: This TV does NOT support QAM under TV tuner. The FMDR has a QAM Tuner. Compare: http://www.sceptre.com
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The tuner will pick up unencrypted signals from your cable. In my case (Verizon FIOS), I got the local broadcast channels, which are the same ones I would pick up with an antenna. If your cable provider encrypts all the signals, then the answer is "no," but that's unusual.If you have a TV that receives digital signals, you can hook that up to your cable and see what it receives. The tuner should pick up all the same channels.
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You commented that you were using comcast basic package, which is probably analog. We have Insight in our area and they have a separate digital package, called digital 3.2, which sends a digital signal that would be far superior. You can purchase HD packages within that set-up.
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yes this attaches to your local network via cat5 cable and to your cable service with standard RG6 coaxial cable. you will need a multi stream cable card from the cable company. it is important that you get the M card or the tuner will not work but I had no problem getting the correct cable card from Comcast. once you set it up and install the software and driver from silicon dust included or downloaded you run the windows media center tv setup and it will find the tuners. if you are only using clear unencrypted channels the cable card may not be needed but to get pay channels or if charter encrypts all channels like Comcast does the cable card is needed.
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Thank you Cihon. But are you sure? This webpage says "Integrated QAM Tuner Yes".http://www.haieramerica.com/electronics/televisions/32-lcd-hdtv-l32f1120under "specification" tab
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I dont think so. A friend of mine purchased one since me and it worked fine out of the box for FTA. We live in the Caribbean as well. So I think you should be fine. We have not tested HD channels so I cannot comment on that.EWP