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> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:14:43 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> | phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:44:58 -0400 Rog' <rcblinnNoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> | "Bert Hyman" <bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> |> |> "Rog'" <rcblinnNoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> |> |>> Is there any reason for those of us who rely on cable or
satellite,
> |> |>> and expect that we always will, to buy a subsidized converter for
> |> |>> our analog-TV's? Maybe just in case someone blows up our
> |> |>> cable-headquarters and takes out the satellites?
> |> |
> |> |> Does your cable or satellite service give you all the digital
> |> |> sub-channels that are available from your local stations OTA?
> |> |> Can you receive your local channels from your satellite service at
no
> |> |> extra charge?
> |> |> If your cable service does provide all the digital subchannels, do
you
> |> |> have to rent a digital converter from them in order to see them?
> |> |
> |> | Hmmm. Food for thought.
> |> | I suspect that local OTA stations will only get one spot each from
> |> | these service providers. However, Cox is, at least, promising to
> |> | analog sup****t three years. "The signal will be down-converted
> |> | from its digital format, enabling customers to receive digital
> |> | broadcast programming in an analog format."
> |>
> |> What they _should_ get is 19.39 mbps of bandwidth. A cable system
that uses
> |> QAM256 is twice that, so this means even with that much bandwidth,
the cable
> |> system only needs to use half the spectrum for each OTA station as
before in
> |> analog. Even with a requirement of the full 19.39 mbps, both come
out ahead
> |> in the deal.
> |>
> |> If you cable system isn't providing every subchannel of every OTA
station,
> |> then call them up and tell them you have a hammer.
> |>
> |
> |
> | "The Hammer of Justice all over this land"
> | -- Pete Seeger
>
> You did see this, right?
>
>
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702359.html
>
Yeah, I heard about that and you know what? I can't blame her for her
frustration and wanting to retaliate. I can't know if I'd use the same
method, but if she made her point and thought it was all worth it, then
I'd say if there's a next time, use a bigger hammer.
--
jer
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