You can pick up HDTV using a rooftop antenna. Try it, you'll like it.
-----Original Message-----
From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:46 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Cable Satellites
Actually the conversion is analog to digital.
Every cable system I've ever seen receives analog C band. That's the
array of big dishes pointed in different directions -- same old
satellites they've been using for 30 years (well, new satellites in
more or less the same place as old ones fail). C band owners receive
EXACTLY the same signal as cable companies do, without conversion and
layers of distribution.
Same with "local" channels over the air. You'd be amazed how clear a
rooftop antenna (properly amplified) is over the same channel on cable.
Renders HDTV as unnecessary as fuel injection.
Bill Robertson
#5939
>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jack Stiefel" <jackstiefel@xxxx> wrote:
> Yeah all the Satellite companies utilize Digital to Analog converters to
> receive the signal in "digital" and therefore state that they are all
> digital. Then they convert the video back to digital for output. Newer
> boxes will have the digital audio connections, but the conversion is
> still done... Go figure
>
> Jack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Farrar Hudkins [mailto:fhudkins@xxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:09 PM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: TV show
>
> RCA ans S-Video, hmm ... so it's analogue audio and digital video?
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> --Farrar
>
> DMCVIN6683 wrote:
> > The sound is all digital just like a DVD, nice and clear. Now you can
> > only achieve this by using the RCA and Super-video connections, dont
> > use the coax cable on a satellite other wise you should stick with
> > cable because the sound and picture quality suffers.
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