PoppaPump
06-25-2008, 10:51 PM
I was hoping someone could shed a little bit of light on a question that just came up today. My friend had bought a HD Monitor with an NTSC/ATSC tuner. He hooked the coax cable into the back and ran the setup and only ended up receiving analog channels. (Or I'm guessing they were all analog) I was a little confused that I was able to receive local HD channels from my coax but he could not. After a little more investigation, it turns out that my tv also has a built in QAM tuner which "allows" these channels over coax? So here are my questions.
Is the QAM tuner just specific to HD channels with no cable box?
Theoretically, if you had an HDTV with no ATSC tuner and no QAM tuner, could you still receive HD programming from a cable box?
I guess I'm just trying to understand the importance of both of these. For now all it seems that the ATSC tuner does is give you local HD channels if you have an antenna. Please forgive my anal questions, I just really want to understand why this is the way it is.
Is the QAM tuner just specific to HD channels with no cable box?
Theoretically, if you had an HDTV with no ATSC tuner and no QAM tuner, could you still receive HD programming from a cable box?
I guess I'm just trying to understand the importance of both of these. For now all it seems that the ATSC tuner does is give you local HD channels if you have an antenna. Please forgive my anal questions, I just really want to understand why this is the way it is.
