Standard def STB question

HDWANNABEE

Question: If I get the Standard STB, Will i be able to see my Locals in HD like I can now with just the coax into my QAM? Or will I have to pay 10 dollars extra a month to see my locals in HD like I do now for free?

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Sony 50" rear proj
Samsung FPT5084
Vizio 32" plasma
Toshiba A30 1080i upconvert player

clearday

The SD box provides no HD. All channels are SD only. The regular HD box is only $4.00 more than the SD box and it provides all the HD channels, not just the locals. SD=$5.99, HD=$9.99 monthly.

Cra1g

You will not only have to get the HD STB, but you will also have to upgrade your service from the Essentials package to their HD package to get any HD channels.

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- 26" Westinghouse SK-26H730S HDTV
- Verizon FiOS Extreme HD Package
- Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ Media Player

JPL

No... that's not correct at all! HD locals are included in Essentials. Go to Verizon's website, and look under FiOS TV, and then channels. Bring up the channel list for your area, and hit the Essentials hyperlink. You'll see which channels you get with the Essentials package.

Also, you don't HAVE to rent an HD box to get your HD locals on a TV with a QAM tuner. Granted, you can't get the HD locals THROUGH your cable box (meaning I can't bring up the guide and tune in my HD channels via my SD box), but you could split the cable. Take the coax out from the input of your SD box. Put it into a cable splitter (make sure it's rated to go up to 1GHz). Take one output from the splitter and put it back to the cable box. Take the other output and put it to the TV's tuner. If you want to watch your locals in HD, you would flip to your TV's tuner, and watch directly from there. If you want to watch SD, just go back to the input from your cable box. This is a pretty painful way to do it, but it can be done.

Cra1g

That's extremely odd. When I had Essentials, no HD channels showed up at all. I called Verizon and they said that I needed to get the HD package in order to see the HD channels. Maybe they were just trying to get money out of me, but I can assure you that I wasn't getting any HD channels off of Essentials. (I did have the HD STB at the time as well.)

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- 26" Westinghouse SK-26H730S HDTV
- Verizon FiOS Extreme HD Package
- Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ Media Player