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From: pso@utastro.UUCP (P Samuel Odoms)
Newsgroups: net.video,net.tv
Subject: Re: Cable Ready TV/VCR
Message-ID: <102@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 18:41:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 18:41:44 1984
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The use of a block converter to 'up-convert' cable channels to UHF can be
a real headache at times.  I've had a block converter for a little over
a year and in general it's been a good investment.  But our cable company
doesn't seem to know its *** from a hole in the ground.  By the laws put
down by the city on our cable company, they must supply a signal which can
be used by consumer-purchased converter or whatever.  And they do.  BUT the
signal is not really strong enough to go through the extra converting.
Some days things are good.  Other days I get a lot of fuzz on about 4 or 5
of my most watched channels.  And frequently I have to re-adjust the convert
between morning/afternoon/evening/night viewing because of cable changes
due to temperature, humidity, etc.  Other people in my quadru-plex (a 4
apartment building) have problems with their reception and they use the
cable company supplied selector box.  And our cable company wants to expand
from (approximately) 24 channels now to 54 channels by 1986?