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Originally Posted by wredman
IF your TV a can display a channel via the QAM tuner, will it will be a standard definition signal??
Where you find the campground cable has signals requiring a QAM tuner, are those stations the same ones you could tune with your OTA antenna?
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QAM is a method to encode the channels for cable. Any HDTV resolution channel can be encoded with QAM so your received channel will be 480i/p, 720i/p, or 1080i/p depending on its resolution (480 is approximately "standard definition") it all depends on the cable system you are hooked to. QAM is all digital so it isn't the old crappy NTSC.
(At my sticks and bricks house our cable has all of its unencrypted QAM channels encoded at 480i/p and the encrypted channels at 1080i/p so to get the best quality you need a cable box. They also pipe through any of the over-the-air channels at 1080i/p unencrypted.)
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