[mythtv-users] About to move to FIOS...couple of questions

[Jerry Rubinow]

On Jan 13, 2008 2:39 AM, Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2008 1:55 PM, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 12, 2008 2:09 PM, Steven Sartorius <ssartor at bellatlantic.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > 1.      In my currrent setup I split my cable feed between my (cable
> > > ready) TV and my Myth box (PVR-150).  This way I can watch regular TV
> > > on one channel while recording with Myth on another.  My
> > > understanding is that with FIOS (or with any digital TV feed that
> > > requires a STB) in order to get this same behavior I'll need two
> > > STBs.  I will still split my signal; one leg will run to a STB
> > > connected to the TV and the other leg to a STB connected to the Myth
> > > box.  Myth will change channels via an IR Blaster to the STB.  Is my
> > > understanding correct?  FWIW, I've read that Verizon makes the first
> > > 40 or so channels available in analog so it is possible just to run
> > > the coax into the PVR-150 and record that way -- however I want to be
> > > able to record all the channels I receive.
> >
> > Yes, channels below 50 are available off the coax in analog, and
> everything
> > 50 and above are digital, so if you wanted all channels available to
> both
> > the TV directly and to Myth, you'd need two STBs (assuming that when you
> > said your tv was cable-ready, you didn't mean it has a CableCard slot).
>
> Does it require a set-top box for every TV, or it supports QAM tuners?
>

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.

-Jerry
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20080113/6a45aba1/attachment.htm