QAM describes the digital modulation for digital tv over cable. If you go into something like hdhomerun/mythtv, you would find it useful to know that comcast uses QAM-256 so that is what you tell myth to scan.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Eric Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Merrill Oveson wrote: > >> what's OTA and QAM? > > OTA = Over The Air > > QAM = Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, but the acronym is also used to refer > to QAM tuners, not just the modulation scheme. > > Here is the difference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAM_(television) and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation > > > -- > Eric Jacobs > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Brad Midgley /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
