boble88
join:2001-12-20
Somerville, MA | reply to ajburgh
Re: [CATV] Boston: I get 50% fewer HD channels but pay for all! Thanks for that info. Warner cable came into Somerville in the 70's Comcast now owns those lines. When Rcn arrived they ran all new lines in the city and I am assuming had to come in with new equipment to receive and distribute these channels. If 1 HD channel is the equivalent of 6 analog then why do we need channels 2 to 70 (or slightly higher) repeated again from 900 to 970+? Would that open up more space? |
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kshakir
join:2006-05-01
Somerville, MA | said by boble88:why do we need channels 2 to 70 (or slightly higher) repeated again from 900 to 970+? I'm pretty sure those are aliased or mapped channels, which only exist in the box software / program guide. When I plug the coax directly into my QAM tuner, the only duplicate channels are the when there's an analog, an SD, and possibly an HD signal.
I'm itching for more HD--even more than the 12 channels Somerville is missing! Here's to getting the new boxes out to Boston/Somerville soon so we can reuse the analog signals! |
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ajburgh
join:2007-08-10
Greenville, SC
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said by boble88:If 1 HD channel is the equivalent of 6 analog then why do we need channels 2 to 70 (or slightly higher) repeated again from 900 to 970+? Would that open up more space? I also don't think those are actually repeated. They are just remapped there by the cable boxes that can receive both analog and digital. The version you see from channels 2 to 70 on a cable box is actually the digital copy of the analog channel.
And 1 analog channel is the equivalent of 6 SD channels. Or 1 analog is the equivalent of 1-2 HD channels. |
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