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Cable companies like renting the cable box.

I dislike having an extra remote control, needing to stand at exactly
the right place to turn everything on or off.

I dislike losing picture in picture.

I dislike having KUSA channel 9 and KUSA-HD channel 653.

I dislike not having my choice of interfaces (such as Toshiba's REZGA)

Cable companies got big with communities giving them monopolies -
which technology has taken away. If they don't give us easier
access, competitors will.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:48:59 -0700, UCLAN wrote:

If she's tuning it on her TV's channel 47, it is NTSC (analog), not
ATSC QAM (digital.)

I don't know. I told the computer to scan for digital stations and
it picked this up, as well as channels such as 7-1.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

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RickMerrill wrote:

So you're saying that you get channels such as ESPN-HD in Clear QAM?

Not sure about that! I have not seen a bug "ESPN HD".

I do get ESPN and ESPN2 however.

Well, so do I. Are they in Clear QAM (channel number like xx-x or xx.x)
or are they analog (channel number like 47 or 65, etc. No "-" or ".")

Cable company? Zip code?

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UCLAN wrote:
RickMerrill wrote:

So you're saying that you get channels such as ESPN-HD in Clear QAM?

Not sure about that! I have not seen a bug "ESPN HD".

I do get ESPN and ESPN2 however.

Well, so do I. Are they in Clear QAM (channel number like xx-x or xx.x)
or are they analog (channel number like 47 or 65, etc. No "-" or ".")

Cable company? Zip code?

QAM channels 75.9 and 75.10, Comcast, E. MA

I don't "do" comcast channels.
(but they happen to be 49 and 50)

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RickMerrill wrote:

So you're saying that you get channels such as ESPN-HD in Clear QAM?

Not sure about that! I have not seen a bug "ESPN HD".

I do get ESPN and ESPN2 however.

Well, so do I. Are they in Clear QAM (channel number like xx-x or xx.x)
or are they analog (channel number like 47 or 65, etc. No "-" or ".")

Cable company? Zip code?

QAM channels 75.9 and 75.10, Comcast, E. MA

I don't "do" comcast channels.
(but they happen to be 49 and 50)

Now I *am* confused. Are they 49 & 50, or are they 75.9 & 75.10?

Zip code?

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UCLAN wrote:
RickMerrill wrote:

So you're saying that you get channels such as ESPN-HD in Clear QAM?

Not sure about that! I have not seen a bug "ESPN HD".

I do get ESPN and ESPN2 however.

Well, so do I. Are they in Clear QAM (channel number like xx-x or xx.x)
or are they analog (channel number like 47 or 65, etc. No "-" or ".")

Cable company? Zip code?

QAM channels 75.9 and 75.10, Comcast, E. MA

I don't "do" comcast channels.
(but they happen to be 49 and 50)

Now I *am* confused. Are they 49 & 50, or are they 75.9 & 75.10?

Zip code?

Sorry, I thought you knew: Comcast's "box" translates 49 into 75-9
and 50 into 75-10 ( a sub-channel 10 of QAM "channel" 75 ).

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RickMerrill wrote:

QAM channels 75.9 and 75.10, Comcast, E. MA

I don't "do" comcast channels.
(but they happen to be 49 and 50)

Now I *am* confused. Are they 49 & 50, or are they 75.9 & 75.10?

Zip code?

Sorry, I thought you knew: Comcast's "box" translates 49 into 75-9
and 50 into 75-10 ( a sub-channel 10 of QAM "channel" 75 ).

Comcast's STB's tuner tunes sub-channel type channels (like 75-9 ??)
No STB I've seen has a "-" or "." in their channels. They are channel
1-999 as whole numbers. What is the model number of the box that has
"-" symbols in its channel numbers?

I guess I should simplify.

To watch ESPN, you tune your STB to channel ____.
To watch ESPN2, you tune your STB to channel ____.

Your zip code is _____.

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UCLAN wrote:
RickMerrill wrote:

QAM channels 75.9 and 75.10, Comcast, E. MA

I don't "do" comcast channels.
(but they happen to be 49 and 50)

Now I *am* confused. Are they 49 & 50, or are they 75.9 & 75.10?

Zip code?

Sorry, I thought you knew: Comcast's "box" translates 49 into 75-9
and 50 into 75-10 ( a sub-channel 10 of QAM "channel" 75 ).

Comcast's STB's tuner tunes sub-channel type channels (like 75-9 ??)
No STB I've seen has a "-" or "." in their channels. They are channel
1-999 as whole numbers. What is the model number of the box that has
"-" symbols in its channel numbers?

I guess I should simplify.

To watch ESPN, you tune your STB to channel ____.
To watch ESPN2, you tune your STB to channel ____.

Your zip code is _____.


You "tune" the STB to 49, BUT the box has been trained by Comcast to
know that in my area (E. MA) ESPN is actually on QAM frequency/channel 75.9.

[The STB has a simple look up table which Comcast can reprogram overnight.]


It's a brave new world, and we all will get used to it some day!

QAM stands for Quadrature Amplitude Modulation - imagine that!

NOTE:
I do not use an STB (my wife does) and I do not post my zip code.

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RickMerrill wrote:

Comcast's STB's tuner tunes sub-channel type channels (like 75-9 ??)
No STB I've seen has a "-" or "." in their channels. They are channel
1-999 as whole numbers. What is the model number of the box that has
"-" symbols in its channel numbers?

I guess I should simplify.

To watch ESPN, you tune your STB to channel ____.
To watch ESPN2, you tune your STB to channel ____.

Your zip code is _____.

You "tune" the STB to 49, BUT the box has been trained by Comcast to
know that in my area (E. MA) ESPN is actually on QAM frequency/channel
75.9.

And you know that the box is tuned to 529.31 MHz (channel 75's QAM carrier)
how? How do you know that the box isn't tuned to 375 MHz (channel 49's
carrier) ? If you use a TV directly, you tune to 49 (375 MHz), right?

It's a brave new world, and we all will get used to it some day!

QAM stands for Quadrature Amplitude Modulation - imagine that!

I'm quite familiar with QAM.

What I'm not sure of is how you equate any of this to your statement
that you're getting digital ESPN and ESPN2 in Clear QAM.

NOTE:
I do not use an STB (my wife does) and I do not post my zip code.

Why? Someone gonna hunt you down based on zip code? ;)

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UCLAN wrote:
RickMerrill wrote:

NOTE:
I do not use an STB (my wife does) and I do not post my zip code.

Why? Someone gonna hunt you down based on zip code? ;)

Is it a status thing? I've been lucky to live in very nice zip codes,
but some of them have bad parts, too.

Seriously, why the fillup on zips??

Do you block cookies, too?

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john mcwilliams