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- From: jerry@olivea.atc.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: CATV Block Converter Wanted
- Message-ID: <57742@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:59:33 GMT
- References: <30DEC199211465212@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> <726207401snx@nlbbs.UUCP> <ofGiErO00WC0Q2pWNR@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <ofGiErO00WC0Q2pWNR@andrew.cmu.edu> geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:
- >Maybe I'm being excessively stupid, but is there anything a Radio
- >Shack converter can do that a "cable ready" VCR can't? (I realize
- >that the original poster had a screwy TV setup, but I want to know for
- >my own purposes!)
-
- I use one in spite of having a "cable ready" TV and VCR. The local cable
- company supplies two cables, A and B. Thus there are two channel 2-n.
- They supply a mechanical switch to toggle between them. The TV has an
- accesory switch so I can select between A and B cable (and potentially
- two more sources).
-
- But my VCR does not support two cable inputs. So, I use the block
- converter to shift the B channels into UHF and feed them into the UHF
- input of the VCR. Thus the VCR can tune the A 2-13 normally and the
- B 2-13 as UHF channels. I miss out on some of the cable only channels
- this way but they are usually the scrambled ones so I don't care much.
-
- The real down side is finding out what channel from the guide, using the
- cable chart to translate to the cable channel, and then using the band
- converter chart to figure out the UHF equivelent. In practive we have
- the important stations memorized.
-