  CNET GLOSSARY: Terms for the techie
QAM
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. Type of digital cable tuner. Televisions and other products equipped with QAM tuners can tune unscrambled digital cable channels from some cable providers, but to view scrambled channels a CableCard is required. 
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