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From: Gerry Wheeler
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 17:32
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 17:32
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In article <1844@astroatc.UUCP>, brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
> As I mentioned in a previous message, the British cable system may be
> VHF. This means that the normal TV/VCR receivers won't work with direct
> cable connections because the equipment only receives UHF.
> One must keep this in mind when discussing overseas TV/Cable systems.
Indeed. I sent a reply to the original question to the fellow in the
UK, describing how we do things, and I mentioned "cable-ready TV". He
pointed out that they have no such thing, so the cable company's box is
mandatory. Would someone who knows care to outline what they really do
over there? From the above quote, I take it the TV stations are all UHF,
so the TV's all have UHF tuners, but the cable system sends only VHF. Is
this correct?
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Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251
Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: rec.video,sci.electronics Subject: Re: *** CABLE TV + VCR + TV *** Message-ID: <899@mks.UUCP> Date: 4 May 89 17:32:46 GMT References: <1796@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <586@corpane.UUCP> <1844@astroatc.UUCP> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 18