On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:47:59AM -0700, Chris Bullock wrote: > Is it possible to run the cable TV signal over fiber optics?
Nope. Cable is radio frequency at the electrical level, fiber is light. It would be like trying to hook your CD player up to a light bulb. Your only hope would be to digitize every channel seperately and send them as MPEG signals... > (snip) > We have an office directly accross the street from our main office > (connected via fiber) with a brand new "donated" 40" plasma, and the cable > company wants $5000 to run cable to that office. ... which sounds infeasible for this need. -- Kevin Otte, N8VNR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nivex.net/ -=- "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana "It seems no one reads Santayana anymore." -- Cdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
