We recommend one piece units. It has been our experience that one piece units work better to replace your cable company’s converter than a 2-piece unit. Although 2-piece units tend to be less expensive, they tend to work less efficiently as well. As the saying goes, "You get what you pay for! " Additionally, our 1-piece units cost less than other companies’ 2-piece units. 5. What is a cable converter / descrambler? An electronic tuning device that transposes all available channels from the cable company into either channel 3 or channel 4. A cable converter is simply a "channel changer" that cannot by itself descramble encoded premium channels. It allows you to receive all basic channels if your TV is not the cable ready type.

When you add a descrambler camerashops to your converter, it allows you to view all premium channels. 6. What is a cable descrambler? A cable descrambler is a device that restores the picture and sound of a scrambled channel. A descrambler must be used with a converter (in a two piece configuration) to be able to descramble all the premium channels of a cable system. 7. What is a cable converter-descrambler? A single (one piece) unit capable of descrambling premium channels. This unit contains a converter and a descrambler, enclosed in a common box. This is also the most common type of equipment supplied by the cable company to subscribing camerashops customers. Customers usually pay a specified monthly rental fee for such equipment.

17. What if my cable company upgrades or changes to a different cable converter? All cable companies eventually upgrade-as technology progresses and new sources camerashops become available older equipment becomes obsolete. The fact is that cable companies do not change quickly or often. It is a huge expense for cable company to swap out all of its customers cable converters and replace them with brand new ones and upgrade the system to support the new scrambling methods. It usually takes a cable company a year or longer to complete an upgrade. Most cable companies upgrade every 10-15 camerashops years. We allow previous customers to trade in their old converters that they purchased from us for credit towards new camerashops equipment, providing that it is in good working condition. 18. What is the difference between filtering and scrambling?

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