Right - once upon a time, SyFy was only available on 17 in SD. Then they added
it in HD on 111. Then they eliminated SD, but now duplicate SyFy in HD on both
17 and 111. That’s either so people won’t complain about having to remember a
new channel number, or because their carriage contract with
all of the channels I cited are HD, at least with my hardware and service
tier
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 1:57 PM Jim Ellwanger wrote:
> Going back around 25 years (I first had “digital cable” in 1998) -- the
> channels in the 2-99 range were the traditional “analog” cable channels,
> and the
Going back around 25 years (I first had “digital cable” in 1998) -- the
channels in the 2-99 range were the traditional “analog” cable channels, and
the 3-digit channels were “digital,” which eventually became “HD.”
Many cable systems no longer transmit analog signals, but they duplicate the
The cable companies are still having separate SD and HD feeds for each
channel. Comcast also has duplicate HD feeds (along with a few unduplicated
channels, which aren't really of any interest for the most part--that
includes the Byron Allen channels that they were forced to take) on their
boxes.
