[ale] OT: Letter to AT&T Broadband re Channel Removal

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

On 13 Dec 2001, Chris Woodruff wrote:

> There are also powered splitters that will take both feeds from a dual
> LNB dish and output four signals.  But all four will still need to have
> a unique receiver but you can now watch four TV's.  I think the unit
> costs around $200 and is about the size of a loaf of bread.

They've shrunk in size.  They're now closer to the size of two 8mm tapes
side by side.

The problem with this is that it does cost around $200, where a second
disk would coust around $50 and provide identical functionality.

-- 
glasher at nycap.rr.com
After 163 days, Verizon still couln't deliver Telocity DSL.


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