Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!pso 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 Article-I.D.: utastro.102 Posted: Wed Feb 8 18:41:44 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 04:32:23 EST References: <667@eisx.UUCP>, <545@ihuxk.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 16 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?