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QAM tuner is a feature of some HDTV hardware. QAM tuner seems to be the digital cable equivalent of the ATSC tuner, bringing in high-definition television signal over the cable instead of over-the-air. See [1], [2], [3]. This Wikipedia article should be renamed so that the T in tuner is lowercase.— 204.42.17.145 09:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Home Theater: How Federal Regulations Affect the Products You Install - Residential Systems (Jul 8, 2004)
Does Your Next Video Display Need to Have a QAM Tuner? - Home Theater & Sound (February 2004)
LCD Terms & Definition - Sceptre.com
— 204.42.20.33 02:34, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a difference between QAM tuners and DVB-C tuners? — 80.171.40.204 21:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
By its own terms, this article is about a North American technical specification. While I realize that includes, on its face, Canada, which uses UK English, the article refers to the FCC, a US government institution, and seems to be more about US television technical specifications then anything else. Obviously, anyone who is able to read English in the world may have an interest in accessing this page and their native form of English may be UK English. As I understand Wikipedia style rules on this issue an English article should be written consistently in US or UK English, but no preference is otherwise specified. Having provided all the provisos upfront, I would still argue that the most interested readers of this article will be residents of the US. I am sure a Wikipedia administrator could shed some light on this factual question by reference to Wikipedia logs. I would further argue that some casual readers, as distinguished from readers sufficiently knowledgeable in the technical aspects of this article to understand them, will be confused by the UK English form of " analog," and may not understand it at all even in the context of this article. In any event, I fully expect a complete reversion back to UK English not because that makes more sense, but because Wikipedia moderators tend to make decisions biased towards article authors and allow them to take virtual ownership over their articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.20.188.9 ( talk) 17:05, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Actually, there are quite a few US only specifics. For example, requirements about having to rebroadcast ... such as "If cable providers provide rebroadcasts of locally aired programming, they must a..." is US only, and not the same in Canada. I am sure that the same would not be true for Mexico either. The problem is that the start of the article discusses 'North American Digital Television", and then proceeds to list US-centric regulations / etc as if they are an N/A standard...
This is really an article about US digital television, and all of the FCC and US legalise somewhat validates this. Nothing wrong with that, but it should be specified to avoid confusion... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.56.81.250 ( talk) 04:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I stumbled across a "ClearQAM tuner" in some HDTV description. What is it exactly? Article here mentions "Clear QAM tuner", but doesn't really explain what is it exactly. Is is simply a tuner that is only able to decode free (unencrypted) channels, or something more? -- 89.113.75.51 ( talk) 15:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
QAM is about much more than cable television; it is a modulation scheme in general use for telecom signals. While that includes cable TV it certainly is not limited to it. The article should be expanded to indicate this, and the title changed. Madgenberyl ( talk) 13:23, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
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QAM tuner is a feature of some HDTV hardware. QAM tuner seems to be the digital cable equivalent of the ATSC tuner, bringing in high-definition television signal over the cable instead of over-the-air. See [1], [2], [3]. This Wikipedia article should be renamed so that the T in tuner is lowercase.— 204.42.17.145 09:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Home Theater: How Federal Regulations Affect the Products You Install - Residential Systems (Jul 8, 2004)
Does Your Next Video Display Need to Have a QAM Tuner? - Home Theater & Sound (February 2004)
LCD Terms & Definition - Sceptre.com
— 204.42.20.33 02:34, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a difference between QAM tuners and DVB-C tuners? — 80.171.40.204 21:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
By its own terms, this article is about a North American technical specification. While I realize that includes, on its face, Canada, which uses UK English, the article refers to the FCC, a US government institution, and seems to be more about US television technical specifications then anything else. Obviously, anyone who is able to read English in the world may have an interest in accessing this page and their native form of English may be UK English. As I understand Wikipedia style rules on this issue an English article should be written consistently in US or UK English, but no preference is otherwise specified. Having provided all the provisos upfront, I would still argue that the most interested readers of this article will be residents of the US. I am sure a Wikipedia administrator could shed some light on this factual question by reference to Wikipedia logs. I would further argue that some casual readers, as distinguished from readers sufficiently knowledgeable in the technical aspects of this article to understand them, will be confused by the UK English form of " analog," and may not understand it at all even in the context of this article. In any event, I fully expect a complete reversion back to UK English not because that makes more sense, but because Wikipedia moderators tend to make decisions biased towards article authors and allow them to take virtual ownership over their articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.20.188.9 ( talk) 17:05, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Actually, there are quite a few US only specifics. For example, requirements about having to rebroadcast ... such as "If cable providers provide rebroadcasts of locally aired programming, they must a..." is US only, and not the same in Canada. I am sure that the same would not be true for Mexico either. The problem is that the start of the article discusses 'North American Digital Television", and then proceeds to list US-centric regulations / etc as if they are an N/A standard...
This is really an article about US digital television, and all of the FCC and US legalise somewhat validates this. Nothing wrong with that, but it should be specified to avoid confusion... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.56.81.250 ( talk) 04:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
I stumbled across a "ClearQAM tuner" in some HDTV description. What is it exactly? Article here mentions "Clear QAM tuner", but doesn't really explain what is it exactly. Is is simply a tuner that is only able to decode free (unencrypted) channels, or something more? -- 89.113.75.51 ( talk) 15:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
QAM is about much more than cable television; it is a modulation scheme in general use for telecom signals. While that includes cable TV it certainly is not limited to it. The article should be expanded to indicate this, and the title changed. Madgenberyl ( talk) 13:23, 5 April 2013 (UTC)