On Jan 13, 2008 2:39 AM, Fedor Pikus <<a href="mailto:fpikus@gmail.com">fpikus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 12, 2008 1:55 PM, Jerry Rubinow <<a href="mailto:jerrymr@gmail.com">jerrymr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Jan 12, 2008 2:09 PM, Steven Sartorius <<a href="mailto:ssartor@bellatlantic.net">
ssartor@bellatlantic.net</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > 1. In my currrent setup I split my cable feed between my (cable<br>> > ready) TV and my Myth box (PVR-150). This way I can watch regular TV<br>> > on one channel while recording with Myth on another. My
<br>> > understanding is that with FIOS (or with any digital TV feed that<br>> > requires a STB) in order to get this same behavior I'll need two<br>> > STBs. I will still split my signal; one leg will run to a STB
<br>> > connected to the TV and the other leg to a STB connected to the Myth<br>> > box. Myth will change channels via an IR Blaster to the STB. Is my<br>> > understanding correct? FWIW, I've read that Verizon makes the first
<br>> > 40 or so channels available in analog so it is possible just to run<br>> > the coax into the PVR-150 and record that way -- however I want to be<br>> > able to record all the channels I receive.<br>
><br>> Yes, channels below 50 are available off the coax in analog, and everything<br>> 50 and above are digital, so if you wanted all channels available to both<br>> the TV directly and to Myth, you'd need two STBs (assuming that when you
<br>> said your tv was cable-ready, you didn't mean it has a CableCard slot).<br><br></div>Does it require a set-top box for every TV, or it supports QAM tuners?<br></blockquote><div><br>The coax carries QAM, which includes music channels and SD and HD versions of all the OTA channels, but not much else (so no ESPN-HD, Discovery-HD, etc). I should say I don't know how standardized Verizon FIOS is, so perhaps which channels are carried varies by location - I'm in SE PA.
<br><br>-Jerry<br></div></div><br>