[ale] Digital TV...

[Unix Guru Dude]

}Unix Guru Dude wrote:
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}> }Geoffrey Myers wrote:
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FYI, the above are one and the same...  Probably get flamed for continuing
this non-list topic, but....

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}> When you say 'interactive digital television,' do you mean a digital signal
}> that is translated to an analog television?  Or do you mean you folks
}> actually have digital televisions in customer homes?  The excerpt above
}> refers to the latter, a whole new technology in televisions....
}
}We are running Digital Signal over an analog carrier to a cable box that
}will translate on the fly.  Excrutiatingly good quality without having
}to go and buy a new television. Plus ours is interactive with the system.
}Order movies while you watch, WHEN you want to.  No waiting on Pay-per-view.
}No returning the friggin tape by midnight the following day and no late charges.

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  How do you send a digital signal
over an analog line?  If it is truly then converted to analog on the fly,
what have you gained?  I don't get it, sounds like a lot of sales talk to me.
It's like saying you get cd quality from an analog tape when you copy a cd
to tape...  I'd like to understand how this is done and why, if this works,
other companies are going to the pains of creating a digital TV.

} 
}It's really sweet.
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