it mean you will get all your cable or satellite over the internet, like Uverse..had ATT uverse for 2 yrs and believe me it was bad. you only get so much bandwidth, if say your recording 2 programs while watching something live.you had better only have 1 tv or else it will not you can't watch the others....sucks BIG TIME. had 2 computers going (watching the rams online) and my wife was recording a program. 2 other tvs you couldn't watch nothing..... not paying for that crap again! will go with internet and watch what i want or down load to watch later