Re: Comcast and 8VSB

On Fri, 09 May 2008 18:12:36 GMT Wes Newell <w.newell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
| 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.

It's been a while since I've seen the cable TV frequency chart.  But I
recall
that in the area between 470 MHz and 806 MHz, they were off by -2 MHz or
by
+4 MHz, depending on how you look at it, relative to OTA channels.

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