Re: Comcast and 8VSB

On Fri, 09 May 2008 06:37:39 -0400, TheWebJunkie wrote:

> On Fri, May 9, 2008, 2:28am (EDT+4) afiggatt1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Alan F)
> wrote:
> 
>> "...Yes, Comcast could provide locals in 8-VSB,
>>but I don't know if the coupon eligible converter boxes with work with
>>cable channel frequencies (beyond channels 2-13)."
> 
> Good point.  However, they *could* relocate the broadcast stations to
> physical channels 2 through 13 and modify the PSIDs accordingly.  A
> *few* people at Comcast *must* be intelligent.

I might be misunderstanding this, but the DTV converters work with 
channels 2-69 by mandate. I assume the cable companies could use any of 
those frequencies they wanted to.

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