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> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:35:14 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> | phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:14:43 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> | phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> |> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:44:58 -0400 Rog'
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> |> |> | "Bert Hyman" <bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> |> |> "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.
>
> I have that Peter, Paul, and Mary song in my head, now.
>
PPM earworm? You say that like it's a bad thing :)
--
jer
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