| reply to Aleck79
Re: going back to the 80's
Ummm...What the FCC did is to standardize the frequency lineup that was used and require that all new TV sets be capable of recieving them with a standard channel heirarchy. Up to that time there were varying systems (standard, HRC, IRC...)and VCR's and TV's had a varying amount of cable channels built in.
When you use a cable co box, they can assign any channel number they want to any frequency. However, you will notice that when you are using just a TV or a older, non descrambler cable box, the channel number shown will allways correspond to the same station.
They did this to stop the then current practice of charging for a REQUIRED cable box to use the cable syatem, since before this, the cable company could use any channel number/frequency scheme they wanted (such as HRC, which comcast still uses today and IRC which has pretty much died out, for example)And to standardize the system for consumers. This, also is during the time FM service on cable was dying out. |
