[DMCForum] Re: Continued: Cable Satellites (Andrei)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Negatory -- all the major channels are still analog. Very few digital
transponders, all of them on the far east birds (footprinted all wrong
west of the Rockies). Don't think I've ever seen anything digital
below the Canadians (I do miss being able to pick them up).

I've also lost the Mexicans -- are they still up there?

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrei Cular <andreic@xxxx> wrote:
> Yes they are running still running C band however they are pulling in a 
> digital signal not analog for most feeds.
> 
> 
> Andrei
> 
> content22207 wrote:
> 
> >99.9% of the cable companies are still looking at the C band
> >satellites. Why do you think they're still up there (and are regularly
> >replaced with new ones)? Certainly not for the handful of us home dish
> >users left. I used to get codes for my black board from a fellow who
> >worked at a cable company in Texas.
> >
> >I can bolt a Ku LNB on my dish and look at the exact same birds you
> >are. Hicksville has nothing to do with it. 
> >
> >Bill Robertson
> >#5939
> >
> >  
> >
> >>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrei Cular <andreic@xxxx> wrote:
> >>Maybe in your back woods hicksville your company still receives
> >>    
> >>
> >analog.  
> >  
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> >>But in this higher tech hicksville we receive digital C and Ku
> >>    
> >>
> >signals.  
> >  
> >
> >>Even my dish receives and decodes the 100% pure digital signal as
well 
> >>as the conventional analog.
> >>
> >>Andrei
> >>
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> >>
> >>content22207 wrote:
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> >>>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
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
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> >>>>-
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> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>Andrei Cular
> >>
> >>Mechanical Engineer
> >>Marine Concepts inc.
> >>www.marineconcepts.com
> >>P:239.283.0800 F:239.283.3332
> >>    
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> >Yahoo! Groups Links
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> -- 
> Andrei Cular
> Mechanical Engineer
> Marine Concepts inc.
> www.marineconcepts.com
> P:239.283.0800 F:239.283.3332

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