Yeah .. I have that ‘adapter’ device on my upstairs tv.
It connects to the cable out coming from the wall and ‘de-scrambles’ the signal but there is still the basic feed that I had before it went digital.
Will it be similar with fios?
I am no Verizon Fios expert (I live in an AT&T U-Verse area), but I think they need an “IP TV adapter” (”cable box”) at each TV, and my current AT&T U-Verse ones are about twice as big as my old Comcast/Xfinity “Digital TV Adapters”(DTA’s).
Both FIOS(fiber to home) and AT&T U-Verse are quite different animals from traditional cable TV...U-Verse (”Fiber-to-Node” version, not sure on the FIOS “Fiber-to-Home” version) is basically “Super-Duper DSL” (50 meg bandwidth or so) that delivers TV AND Internet on twisted pair copper for the last 3500 feet or less (fiber-to-node/VRAD) or in brand-new subdivisions it is “Fiber-to-Home” for AT&T also.
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