<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org" target="_blank">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Jay Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Does it work? How does it work?<br>
><br>
> It is a measurably worse approach than the Ethernet tuners?<br>
><br>
> I'm on Bright House St Pete, which I believe is 256-QUAM, with the channels<br>
> I care about in the clear.<br>
<br>
</div>If all the channels you care about are in the clear, you can get a<br>
tuner which doesn't support decryption at lower cost than a cable card<br>
tuner. It saves not only the cost of the tuner itself, but also the<br>
rental fee for the cable card.<br>
<br>
The only advantage to the cable card is that it doesn't require<br>
mapping the channels the way a clear-QAM tuner does, so it's somewhat<br>
easier to set up and maintain.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Eric<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Does anything exist in the clear anymore or long term? Often the first CableCard is included at no additional charge with a cable subscription. I found the clear-QAM channel scanning process to be quite cumbersome. It was always a long scan and a tedious hunt to identify each channel since they were not automatically resolved. This process was repeated any time Comcast decided to change up its channel frequency map.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I found setting up the Ceton PCIe tuner to be by far the easiest tuner that I have ever setup. It was also far more reliable and required no maintenance.</div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The only thing going for the QAM tuners these days is that they are cheap.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Tom</div></div>