[mythtv-users] Question about QAM

[Ronald Frazier]

> I'm about to get FiOS TV installed, and I read that it provides QAM local channels.

We don't have verizon Fios in our area, but AT&T is rolling out a
fiber based plan. Is Verizon doing it in a different way? The reason I
ask is because with AT&T's plan, my understanding is that it doesn't
handle cable in the traditional way. You can't hook it up to a TV
directly...you need to hook every tv up to a converter box (and your
whole house combined is limited to watching 4 channels
simultaneously). In such a situation, there would be no QAM, because
everything is IP based up to the converter box.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn it can be done better and that AT&T
took the half-assed approach.

-- 
Ron