Your options for your parents are pretty simple.
#Gitbox channels tv#
This means that your TV will not be able to tune to this channel it can only be unscrambled by a Verizon STB.Ĥ. Verizon does this, Comcast does this, Charter does this. *Any* cable provider can and will encrypt any digital (naturally HD if available) channels that are not local channels, i.e. This is also the case with Verizon, although typically the HD (digital) version of your locals will be 4-1 if 4 is CBS, for example, but there may be other channels (like PBS subchannel "Create") that are 107-371, for example, which doesn't mean it is encrypted (it's not, you can watch it), but just that's the channel # being sent by Verizon to be turned into "494," for example, by the STB, if present. That is because, by law, providers cannot encrypt local HD channels. With a digital TV, that channel was available without any set-top box. 103-3 happened to be CBS HD for me back when I had Charter cable. When a channel is in the format "103-3," for example, that does *not* necessarily mean it is encrypted. 3-1), hence the obvious numerical limit on the number of channels available by this method.ģ. 125 or so, and can't tune to subchannels (i.e. Analog tuners typically only go up to Ch. 1-99) without any type of set-top box - just wall coax to TV - is because those cable providers have specifically kept those channels in the older analog format just for that purpose.
The reason why, with Comcast or any other "regular" cable provider, you are able to get "expanded basic" (i.e. With a digital TV, you will also be able to get the HD versions of these stations, if available (I do not believe that includes WGN America HD, though and TVG and Weatherscan are not in HD).Ģ. With an analog TV, you are only able to get the analog versions of these stations (i.e.
#Gitbox channels plus#
affiliates), plus local access channels in your area, plus WGN America (Superstation), plus Weatherscan and TV Guide Network. These include basically anything you'd be able to get with an antenna (your local CBS, FOX, NBC, ABC, PBS, CW, etc. You can tell if your TV is digital if it says "ATSC" or more simply, if you are able to tune to channels like "3-1" and not just "3" or "4." An "analog" TV means a TV with an analog tuner, basically anything non-flat panel built before 2004 and only able to get "3" or "4," but not "3-1."ġ) With FiOS, the only channels you can receive are local channels, which are Chs 1-50 on the FiOS lineup. By "digital" TV, I mean a TV with a digital tuner (basically all flat panels/anything bought after 2004). There are two basic things you need to know before I do that though. Please tell me if you don't understand or I use too much technical terms. I will try to answer each of your questions. I don't understand why Verizon makes it so much more difficult to watch TV without a convertor box, especially when all the rest of their services are far superior to Comcast's. Why is there this difference? Why does Verizon encrypt more content, why is the signal in this strange format, and why can't my older TVs receive the signal? My parents have some very old TVs receiving Comcast's signal without a convertor box. For example, to get CBS HD, I need to tune to channel 3-1 (not just channel 3 or channel 503). In my efforts to determine what I could get from Verizon while snowed in this past week, it appeared to me that with Verizon I can only get LOCAL channels (no ESPN, etc.), that I need a TV with a digital tuner, and that I need to tune along two dimension. They can view channels 2-99 (Including ESPN, Comcast Sports Net, etc.) and this is done by simply tuning the TV to one of those channels.
However, they have three other TVs hooked up directly to the incoming cable with no intervening box. My parents use Comcast, and on one TV they use the box provided by Comcast (for a monthly fee) to view digital and premium channels.
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