I have digital cable through Cablevision in the Manhattan area; I have some additional pay channels as well. I also have the "Optimum" (name brand; not necessarily an adjective describing quality of any kind) cable modem service.
Aside from the staggering bill, all I get (for analog) is the basic 13 channels. Everything above that is scrambled. Really makes my Myth box mostly useless for TV as those are just the local channels (that I never watch anyway.) Just my $0.02 worth. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:28 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Cable Modem == Free Basic Cable. On Tuesday 08 February 2005 22:58, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 07 February 2005 14:49, Andy Long wrote: > > NOT getting analog cable if you have digital seems odd, unless they > > have installed some kind of filter on your line. > > Not really, the reason for going digital is the dramatic increase in > the number of stations carried. Many cable plants are switching > to Digital only, as each analog channel takes something like 5 to 8 > digital channels worth of bandwidth. Yes, but typically there are 3 scenarios in the wild: (1) cable provider goes digital-only -- there are no analog channels on the cable. I'd guess this is rather rare (2) cable provider provides analog + digital. Channels < 125 are analog, others are digital. Analog channels do not have digital equivalents (except for the case of a local station that broadcasts 2 channels, for standard and HD). (3) same as (2), except all analog channels are mirrored on the digital side. In this case, the provider may or may not choose to put a filter on the analog channels for digital customers. Based on anecdotal evidence on this list in the past, it seems that either [2] or [3] (with no filter) is the most common. So yes, in that case it would "seem odd" not to get analog channels in addition to the digital ones. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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