[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Aha.  That's what I think too. :)
> 
> The question I now need to answer is: If it isn't interlace noise, what
> is it?

  It's been mentioned, but noise in the cable can look
very different when encoded.

  Unrelated related story, I got a digital cable box
a while ago, and it also tunes analog stations but
internally it digitizes them somehow and then can
show them on TV with an overlay for program guide and
information and such.

  When I first got it, I found the digitized version
of the analog picture looked much worse than the real
analog picture, so I would use the digital cable
box to find the show I wanted to watch, then watch
it on the analog station.

  Later, my signal got weak and I start to get a lot
of dropouts and such, so the cable guy installed an
amp, which solved my problems.

  It also made my signal stronger, and now, the cable-box
digitized versions of the analog signals look more
or less the same as watching them in analog.

  So... similar to what we all think is happening
here, the weak analog signal looked fine but didn't
digitize well when it was weak. Got really grainy
and overly sharp.

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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