[hollywoodjoe]

This may be an apples vs. oranges question, but I have the HDHomeRun tuner and it works great with my cable and BeyondTV. However, I'm not too thrilled with my cable and was thinking of switching to satellite. Does satellite offer the same clear QAM as cable so all I would need to do is change my RG6 wire from my cable company to the satellite? (And then do a rescan, of course.)

 

[ebockelman]

No, the satellite companies use a completely different standard.

 

[Zagor]



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Originally Posted by hollywoodjoe /forum/post/12847562


This may be an apples vs. oranges question, but I have the HDHomeRun tuner and it works great with my cable and BeyondTV. However, I'm not too thrilled with my cable and was thinking of switching to satellite. Does satellite offer the same clear QAM as cable so all I would need to do is change my RG6 wire from my cable company to the satellite? (And then do a rescan, of course.)

Definately apples vs. oranges. Satellites do not use QAM at all, Directv uses DSS while most other satellite companies (DishNet, BellExpressVu, etc) use DVB-S. There are actually DVB-S tuner cards but they won't do you any good here in North America because both DishNet and BellExpressVu encrypt all their channels.

 

[hollywoodjoe]

Okay, so if I switch from cable to satellite, all of my tuners won't work anymore and I just put them on E-Bay, right?

 

[Ronin_R6]



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Originally Posted by hollywoodjoe /forum/post/12849207


Okay, so if I switch from cable to satellite, all of my tuners won't work anymore and I just put them on E-Bay, right?

No, you just put up an antenna, and your HDHomerun will tune all the broadcast networks you can get at your location.

 

[hollywoodjoe]

I get ZERO reception with an antenna. :-( So E-Bay it is.

 

[Kei Clark]

See R5000 mod.