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TCI Digital Cable Review - Seattle

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From: geno
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

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