[opendtv] Re: Spam:Re: :Scrambled channels irk cable viewers
- From: "Gary Hughes" <ghughes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:41:58 -0400
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> From: John Willkie [mailto:johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:09 PM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Spam:[opendtv] Re: :Scrambled channels irk cable viewers
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> I tend to doubt that Mass state regulations do what you=20
> allege, since the Federal government has exclusive=20
> jurisdiction over cable (save franchising, which IS state)=20
> and specifically, since the passage of the 1992 Cable=20
> rewrite, cities and franchising authorities have had ZERO to=20
> do with rates.
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The Cable Television Division of the Mass. Dept of Telecommunications
and
Energy regulates rates for the basic service tier and and any equipment
required.
http://www.mass.gov/dte/catv/rates.htm
> If the basic channels are sequestered in the lower channels=20
> (a common industry practice) then the people who ran TCI and=20
> AT&T are PURE IDIOTS. (Who would have known?) When they=20
> installed these customers, an oh-so-simple low pass filter=20
> would have prevented leakage of extended basic channels. No=20
> additional truck roll was required: it is generally done at=20
> the same time the cable is initially installed. The last=20
> time I had cable installed in the U.S., I was given access to=20
> extended basic cable because the guy in the truck did not=20
> have an effective filter combination to handle low pass, plus=20
> the notch filter required to pass HBO.
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For whatever reason, omitting the filters seems fairly common in this
area.
> If I'm not mistaken, cable modems use frequencies either=20
> below or above and below TV channels.
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Forward (downstream) data channels are typically somewhere in the higher
frequency ranges normally used for digital services. The reverse
channels=20
are below normal TV frequencies.
gary
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