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[#1]

Stop the practice of degrading the digital signal to analog. Everything is advertised as HD. The least package offered is claimed to be HD (Prime HD). Almost all tv's sold today are digital, virtually all stations transmit a digital signal. A digital signal brought all the way into my home, sent to an analog box to be degraded, then sent to my digital HD tv. If I want the signal the way it was delivered to my house, I have to pay extra. 

Thats like:  I bought this car that was advertised as 8 cylinders, but the dealer disabled two cylinders. I have to pay extra to get the 2 other cylinders active, as it was delivered to the dealer and as it is advertised.

[#2]

..."sent to an analog box to be degraded"... Our system is digital end to end. When you say 'analog box, I do not know what you are referring to. Can you help me understand?

[#3]

Quadrature amplitude modulation

It may not be the IPTV or the most efficient way to send the digital signal, but it is still digital.

When FiOS was launch the system was built around the OLT at Verizon and The ONT at the home.

Three different wavelengths of light are used. One of these is reserved for RF. Now at first it was the transmission of analog channels and digital channels over RF. The confusion is the analogs were still digital over the fiber and then converted to analog for use in your home.

That ended, and the analogs were dropped, for the total use of the RF bandwidth dedicated for QAM and digital TV only. This allowed the SD and HD channels to use the RF bandwidth more efficiently, and also add a larger number of HD channels.

The analog channel availability on FiOS in the home was dropped the year prior to the FCC ATSC digital mandate, that everything broadcast be switched to digital. FiOS has been 100% digital from the start, but only provided a small number of broadcast channels in the analog format in your home.

If I am wrong please someone provide a correction or more or less detailed explanation.

On a second note, there are various methods to connect your STB to the TV. Now if you want digital from the box to the TV, you will need to use the HDMI connector.