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Re: Fybush.com re: core spectrum of TV channels



On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 11:03 PM, Larry Weil wrote:

> At 8:45 PM -0500 11/1/01, Paul Anderson wrote:
>
>>  Our cable system has not been converted to digital (Charter 
>> Communications in Barre) but could the cable company be sending us 
>> WGBH-DT anyway?
>
> Why not?  It sounds as though they are receiving the DT signal from 
> GBH, then converting it to NTSC for cable distribution.  This probably 
> results in you getting a better picture than if they picked up GBH 
> directly, so why complain?

Gosh, I wasn't complaining!  The picture on WGBH, however, has always 
been good.  I would notice it more if they did the same to WBZ, whose 
picture quality on the cable system is always bad.

Paul