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gtxrider · 10-01-2006, 08:19 PM

I love it! I have switched to a digital cable box just so I can continue to get channels I had before but have now gone digital. The reception is bad the picture freezes, sound drops out, total loss of the picture... I never had this when the channels were analog.

Reminds me of a phrase a teacher I had for a data transmission course over 30 years ago used. He would say "there is no such thing as a free lunch". As the data (baud rate) increase so do the errored seconds. Remember the old Sprint Pin Drop Commercials? We could get almost the same noise levels both C-Message and C-Notch on our analog facilities. We actual inserted noise so people would know they still had a connection.

10-01-2006, 08:19 PM	#17
gtxrider Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Piscataway, NJ Posts: 1,030 Thanks: 2 Thanked 46 Times in 24 Posts	Digital? I love it! I have switched to a digital cable box just so I can continue to get channels I had before but have now gone digital. The reception is bad the picture freezes, sound drops out, total loss of the picture... I never had this when the channels were analog. Reminds me of a phrase a teacher I had for a data transmission course over 30 years ago used. He would say "there is no such thing as a free lunch". As the data (baud rate) increase so do the errored seconds. Remember the old Sprint Pin Drop Commercials? We could get almost the same noise levels both C-Message and C-Notch on our analog facilities. We actual inserted noise so people would know they still had a connection.