New Cable TV converter protocol
Recent travels to CG that have cable tv service, finding it is necessary to use their converter common to the local cable co in order to get any reception. This requires an interconnection in the coac...
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DSDP Don wrote:
"wildtoad"......the boxes are a cheap fix by the campground.....it's not the cable companies fault. They can easily send a digital signal. In this day and age, there are numerous systems that can be installed to provide cable or OTA TV without a box. This KOA probably couldn't afford the upgrade.
Actually the KOAs system basically does not care what the Cable company is feeding the park with, it's all RF falling in the same frequncy range it was and likely shall always be.
IT IS the cable company's fault.. you see they can charge you for each STB (Set Top Box). In the old days you needed a set top box for every TV so you paid perhaps 25/month then a couple bucks more for each STB, But then the TV's came out with QAM demodulators in it and all you needed to do was toss a splicer or two and you could add half a dozen TVs to the single account.. So they Cable companies came up with a new encryption code so they can charge you by the TV again.
Cable TV is. of course, a rip off, on several levels.
But it is the cable company's fault NOT the campgrounds.
