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Re: O/T: Cable tv sites said by battleop:The only real first generation signal available to the consumer was what you could get on a BUD. Even the Cable companies compress and process the signal so it is no longer a 1st generation signal. Well since your splitting hairs that is also incorrect as the downlinks are no longer analog, so if one truly wanted a first generation signal they would need to be hard wired or fibered into the content provider pre-uplink. :-P
Wayne
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| I am referring to commercials that ran in the 90s when USSB was still around. That's why I used the word "was" and not "is" in "The only real first generation signal available ot the consumer WAS what you you could get on a BUD.
The last time I used my BUD to watch anything analog I found a very small number of analog transponders. There are still a few trucks out there that use analog signals for their uplink and even that's becoming rare. I only really search the analog stuff during an active hurricane that's headed for the US.
I think you might be able to still subscribe to 4DTV but that wouldn't be a 1st gen signal since who ever owns the rights to that now has to mux the feed and send it back up to the bird. |
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