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Do new flat-panel TVs have QAM?

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March 21, 2014 11:11:45 AM

My cable is switching more and more channels to digital. They say viewers will only be able to see them if their TV has QAM capabilities, otherwise customers can rent a QAM adapter box from the company for an additional $10 fee per month. Wishing to avoid more costs (I'm paying almost $200 a month now to Time Warner), I wanted to know if the newer TVs are QAM compliant. How can I tell if they do?

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March 21, 2014 11:27:16 AM

it was either 2004 or 2006 i believe that all tvs made where mandatory to have qam tuners built in.

If bought in last couple years (new not used off ebay or craigslist with them who knows) it will have qam.

when you do a channel search does it ask to scan air/digital/cable

Now things to consider
1) Going straight to tv you will lose a couple of things: a) on demand b) premium channels like HBO c) pay perview d) any channel that is scrambled.
2) There are some tv's that come with what is called a Cable Card slot. If it does you can get most of those things back but not that many come with it.
3) When you switch to using tv to do QAM cable per say your channel line up will not be the same as before. You might have a local channel say channel 8 show up on channel 76.34 or 85.1. The qam tunner goes after the actual channel you box has a table that (without you seeing) 76.34 is channel 8. What that means is you will have to watch the channels and make a cheat sheet. If you are only watch say 10 channels anyway then you might only have to remember 10. Some channels will show up a few times regular/digital/hd.

Ask time warner will they offer something called a DTA (digital transport adapter.....or as we used to call digital to analog :-) )? Some places offer them without the on demand, hd, or premiums but give you back your regular analog channels for about 2-3 dollars a month.

hope this helps.
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