<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jay Ashworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> From: "Jay Ashworth" <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>><br>
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> A Verizon FiOS Business TV Sales rep told me that once they hand me the drop,<br>
> they don't care how many TVs I connect to it, as long as they're all a)<br>
> on the premises and b) not available to the commercial public. I assume<br>
> they don't care whether I use multicast or coax to connect them. :-)<br>
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</div>A quick followup on this: Technical support later told me that the signal<br>
out the back of the ONT was encrypted, and I would need cablecards or STBs<br>
on each set/tuner.<br>
<br>
I then spoke with the installer who was scheduled to actually do the work,<br>
and he contradicts that: he says *nothing* is encrypted out the back of the<br>
ONT, but it *is* QAM-256, and you need a new enough tuner to see it -- which<br>
the HDHR Tech *is*.<br>
<br>
I'm not sure I believe that they're sending unencrypted premium and pay<br>
channels out the back; I'm assuming if that were true, I'd have heard it<br>
by now; can anyone confirm or deny?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Denied. All the non-OTA channels (plus a handful of others like shopping channels) you aren't subscribed to will generally be scrambled straight off the ONT. Here in the PA area, this is the case, anyway. With a plain HDHR, I could only get the OTA channels FIOS carries. With the HDHR Prime of course, I can get all the ones I subscribe to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I always get the differences wrong between scrambled vs encrypted vs DRM vs encoding so I won't try, but practically you can't get most channels straight off the ONT without a CableCard being involved somehow. </div>
<div><br></div><div>-Jerry</div></div>