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Article #1971TCI Digital Cable Review - Seattle
From: geno
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:00
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I am in the process of having my TCI digital cable box removed here in Seattle. The DMX music service that we used to have was GREAT. The music was clean and the artist info from the remote was nice to have as well. The new digital music sounds like crap. The DMX is only 10 channels (crappy ones), the music is muddy and has no dynamic range at all. And, no artist info on screen (a la DSS) or on the remote. The quality of the regular cable channels (2-40, here) looks worse through their box vs directly out of my Mitsubishi TV tuner. The digital channels, while "clear" are very pixel-ish and jerky. Like bad internet video. I've had them out here twice and now that we've gotten the signal strength into the proper range, I can honestly say that I am not impressed and not happy. I've installed a few DSS dishes for friends, and the music and video quality was infititely superior to TCI's "digital" cable. I am very sorry to have lost the old DMX which was really the only reason that I had cable... Geno -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10244d,3190ad113f6804db,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10244d,public From: geno@seanet.com Subject: TCI Digital Cable Review - Seattle Date: 1998/03/31 Message-ID: <6fsfo9$24e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 339691607 X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95) Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Apr 01 04:30:41 1998 GMT Newsgroups: csu.general