On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:52:42PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > > Of course it varies in other cable companies, but from what I see they > > are getting large numbers of SD channels per QAM signal (more than 4 > > certainly) and so I presume the entire digital cable lineup is there, > > encrypted, but perhaps I am wrong and other parts of it need to be > > enabled or go in a band my QAM-cable capable TV can't tune. > > > > Please note I do NOT have digital cable. > > I'm confused, Brad. Cause if you have QAM signals coming in over your > cable, then you have digital cable by definition, no? > > Analog cable is comprised entirely of signals which are NTSC RS-170a > system M modulated to be receivable by a standard TV set -- if it can > tune the center frequencies of the channel properly. > > It may be the case that you aren't *subscribing* to digital cable... > but that it's on the wire anyway since it hasn't been nececssary for > the cableco to *trap* it to date, since non-cableco, compatible > decoders have been a rare item.
Long interpretation of a simply misunderatanding of a common meaning of "I have analog cable" which indeed, I said to mean that I pay only for analog cable.
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