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- From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
- Subject: Re: Stereo commercials, mono programming?
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 09:19:08 GMT
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- Jerry Whelan (guru@camelot.bradley.edu) wrote:
- : I just noticed an odd phenomenon. I have a Sony 20EXR25 (or
- : something like that, a 27" tube with stereo and PIP) tv with a
- : little red light that comes on when the tv thinks it is receiving
- : a stereo broadcast.
- : Occasionally I have seen the stereo light blink on when the signal
- : for a mono station got too noisy (which seems odd to me, anyone want
- : to comment on that?). However, today I started paying close attention
- : to the light and noticed that while watching USA (which is mono over
- : the cable system here), whenever a _local_ commercial would come on,
- : the stereo light would come on too. Like I could give a shit if the
- : commercials were in stereo... So what I want to know is what is the
- : deal here? Is the `hard part' in converting the USA satellite stereo
- : feed to a cable-ready stereo signal, or is the `hard part' just in
- : putting out a stereo cable signal to begin with. Is the cable company
- : being competent in not decoding the stereo satellite feed, or just
- : cheap in that they won't pay for the required equipment?
- : Also, our `community info' channel which is just a static display
- : with bulletin board adverts, the time and the temp and a local radio
-
- Well, since WRBU or whatever the hell its called it only "broadcast" on cable,
- it damn well better be in stereo, since thats the only way to listen to it...
- and after I've sunk the kind of money that I have into my _stereo_ system,
- I'm sure as hell not going to listen to any kind of music "radio" station in
- mono... Now if only TCI would give us converter boxes w/stereo RCA output
- jacks on them.... Oh well... I can dream, can't I?
-
- : station for audio is in stereo too. Couldn't the cable company make
- : better use of the equipment to put out stereo USA or TNT or something
- : like that?
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