On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:58:48 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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'
<rcblinnNoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> |> |> | "Bert Hyman" <bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> |> |> |> "Rog'" <rcblinnNoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|> |> |> |>> 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.
|>
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| PPM earworm? You say that like it's a bad thing :)
Title: "If I had a hammer"
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