[mythtv-users] (US) Goodbye to unencrypted QAM...

[jedi]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:38:23AM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:26 PM, jedi<jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > I thought the usefulness of QAM was pretty much dead anyways.
> >
> > There's never been much that the cable companies were required
> > to put on QAM anyways. Most often, you're just getting degraded
> > versions of what you can get with an antenna anyways.
> 
> Hardly.

   Like many things, YMMV. 

   I'm in outer suburbia and I pretty much get anything over the
antenna that the local landline monopoly allows to go in the clear
over QAM.

   Anything else seems to be more the exception than the rule.

   Either way, you seem to be at the mercy of the local provider. If
they wanted to be jerks before I'm not sure there was any recourse.
They probably could have cut you off at will before if they wanted
to and the new rule/exception probably didn't mean much.

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