06-01-2008, 08:24 PM
[quote Racer X][quote BigGuynRusty][quote wurm][quote BigGuynRusty]
I don't know how good you "Pore"...
BGnR
Evidently, not well enough. Was Not meant as a slam, honest!
But here is the nitty-gritty info.:
The cable company must either provide an analog signal, or a FREE cable box for their first tier customers.
Any signal the cable company pulls out of the air (OTA aka, local Broadcast Channels) for free, must be provided to the customer for free. This includes your local broadcast HD Channels. If you have an ATSC tuner, you can receive the Clear QAM channels by hooking your ATSC Tuner directly to the Cable Company Coax, but the Cable Company does not provide any guide info as the OTA signal does, also the channel assignments can move at any time, forcing you to do a channel scan.
BGnR
Just so I understand in real layman's terms...
If my local cable company, Comcast here in Seattle, gets their local programming feeds from an over the air antenna directly from the stations, they need to feed me that signal for free over their coax? And if I need a converter box to see those channels, they are required to provide it for free? Sorry, the Box Rental is Not Free. The words are "Box Rental", they are not charging for the "Free" HD Channels, they are only renting you equipment, extra services are extra money.
The Free HD (mostly Broadcast, and PublicTV) Channels, are Free.
Your NTSC Tuner, when connected directly to the Cable Company Coax will pick up the crappy analog signals the Cable Company provides.
If you have an ATSC Tuner, it will decode the Clear QAM signal.
BGnR
I don't know how good you "Pore"...
BGnR
Evidently, not well enough. Was Not meant as a slam, honest!
But here is the nitty-gritty info.:
The cable company must either provide an analog signal, or a FREE cable box for their first tier customers.
Any signal the cable company pulls out of the air (OTA aka, local Broadcast Channels) for free, must be provided to the customer for free. This includes your local broadcast HD Channels. If you have an ATSC tuner, you can receive the Clear QAM channels by hooking your ATSC Tuner directly to the Cable Company Coax, but the Cable Company does not provide any guide info as the OTA signal does, also the channel assignments can move at any time, forcing you to do a channel scan.
BGnR
Just so I understand in real layman's terms...
If my local cable company, Comcast here in Seattle, gets their local programming feeds from an over the air antenna directly from the stations, they need to feed me that signal for free over their coax? And if I need a converter box to see those channels, they are required to provide it for free? Sorry, the Box Rental is Not Free. The words are "Box Rental", they are not charging for the "Free" HD Channels, they are only renting you equipment, extra services are extra money.
The Free HD (mostly Broadcast, and PublicTV) Channels, are Free.
Your NTSC Tuner, when connected directly to the Cable Company Coax will pick up the crappy analog signals the Cable Company provides.
If you have an ATSC Tuner, it will decode the Clear QAM signal.
BGnR