Cable Co's going all digital using QAM system

D.E.Bishop wrote:
Both of our cable companies have or are going all digital and it requires a QAM tuner to decode the signals. There are others that are using the QAM system too. If this is common will we have to buy External QAM tuners for our sets that don't have them built in for CGs that utilize cable?

Seems to be that the Cable Co's picked the one system not required by the FCC. Or maybe it's the FUC, whatever. It just seems that I replace all the CRT sets to have the new digital tuners for OTA signal and now for wired I have to have a box for those sets without QAM. Of course none of this is to increase profit for the Cable providers is it.

Many campgrounds take the coded signal that requires the cable companies own decoder box and decode it and then send it out to their hookups. Every cable company is using a company specific box and there is no way to be able to own all of the boxes for companies that you might encounter at campgrounds (nor could a non-subscriber even get them) - if they say at the campground that they include cable in a full hookup they are either going to give you the box or they have decoded the signal for you. All you do then is connect to their cable, TV scan the channels, and watch.