Re: [OT Grumble] Re: Nice explanation of Digital vs analog OTA tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/14/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nah, I think its still doable. Most of those details are obscured from the user, so long as they get the right hardware and instruction ~~ I have spent too many days up at the "Hosstrade

Re: [OT Grumble] Re: Nice explanation of Digital vs analog OTA tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Feb 14, 2007, at 14:34, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Nah, I think its still doable. Most of those details are obscured from the user, so long as they get the right hardware and instruction ~~ on how to hook it up to what. I have spent too

Re: [OT Grumble] Re: Nice explanation of Digital vs analog OTA tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
> Hey! When did you go from "senior" to "elder!" I'd thwack those young > bucks 'upside the head, little whippersnappers... > > Not a handful of years maddog's junior, > About five years ago I was in Dublin, trying to get into a historic church to see their museum. There was a small charge to

Re: [OT Grumble] Re: Nice explanation of Digital vs analog OTA tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Ted Roche
On Feb 14, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: I remember a time when... P.P.S. Do I sound like a Dead Troll? From koolu.com: "KOOLU is pleased to announce the acceptance of Mr. Jon "maddog" Hall as CTO and ambassador to the world for Koolu. Mr. Hall is a well known elder state

Re: [OT Grumble] Re: Nice explanation of Digital vs analog OTA tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
> > Nah, I think its still doable. Most of those details are obscured > from the user, so long as they get the right hardware and instruction ~~ > > on how to hook it up to what. Jarod, I have spent too many days up at the "Hosstraders"

Re: [OT Grumble] Re: Nice explanation of Digital vs analog OTA tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Feb 14, 2007, at 14:14, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Important to note the distinction between an mpeg2 transport stream (mpeg2-ts) and an mpeg2 program stream (mpeg2-ps) here. I remember a time when you could just walk up to a TV and turn it on. And it would play. Maybe it would play with a 9

[OT Grumble] Re: Nice explanation of Digital vs analog OTA tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
> Important to note the distinction between an mpeg2 transport stream > (mpeg2-ts) and an mpeg2 program stream (mpeg2-ps) here. I remember a time when you could just walk up to a TV and turn it on. And it would play. Maybe it would play with a 9" snowy black and white picture in a four-foot h