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 <[email protected]> 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 3-digit channels were “digital,” which eventually became “HD.” > > Many cable systems no longer transmit analog signals, but they duplicate > the digital/HD channels in the 2-digit range so people don’t have to learn > new channel numbers if they don’t want to (and, perhaps, due to carriage > contracts that specify channel locations). > > > On Dec 22, 2023, at 1:49 PM, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been looking over alternative cable TV plans lately, and looking at > the channels menu, I see many of them have two locations in the list > > there are theoretically numerical groups (the 200s are news channels, the > 500s are HBO/SHO/etc.), but this is random; SyFy can be viewed on 17 and > 111, IFC on 81 and 627 > > all duped channels are on the same tiers, so anybody whose package > includes one of the channels can also access the other > > other than upping the number of "channels offered" in their advertising, > is there anything about this that matters to the viewer or to the cable > company? > > thanks > and merry/happy/other to all > > jon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4dhgT%3D8umCznqcRZenuAXHvhetVMLiitf8Bxz_NOU8UWA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4dhgT%3D8umCznqcRZenuAXHvhetVMLiitf8Bxz_NOU8UWA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6381B8E5-2A39-4136-BA2A-50269B92DE46%40ellwanger.tv > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/6381B8E5-2A39-4136-BA2A-50269B92DE46%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4c_qWvioKd%2BcSwzDYAERqnsdBd6RXbY0b23bdmQ-wFfQg%40mail.gmail.com.
