cable box (was Re: Boston Catholic Television (Was 103.5FM...now'Memory Lane')

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> 
> I don't see how that would work, since I believe that the channels
> used by cable companies are all VHF frequencies.
> 
Well..this was a box used by the old ACQ (American Cablevision of Queens)
cable company here in NYC.  I believe it uses a combination of VHF and
channel-shifted UHF (which is the reason why when you set a cable-ready
set on CATV instead of ANT, you get Channel 41 on Channel 90-something.).

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