30 Jun 08 10:27, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> 29 Jun 08 06:43, Roger Nelson wrote to bob klahn:

 RW>> RN> [...]

 RW>> bk>> With satellite you have to have a convertor. I don't with
 RW>> cable.
 RW>> bk>> And I have cable in almost every room, and to any computer
 RW>> where
 RW>> bk>> I want it.

 RW>> RN> What aren't you telling us about cable?

 RW>> The cable box is the tuner and it's only output is either Channel 3
 RW>> or Channel 4 and it may or may not have audio/video outputs too. The
 RW>> cable box is only analog out, so he'll never experience HD.

 RN> To that I'll add that he doesn't have an interactive menu system, but
 RN> has to go by a scrolling of channels provided by the Cableco on a
 RN> specified channel to see what he's getting and sometimes that isn't
 RN> accurate.  If he has the least amount of channels offered, a box is
 RN> not needed.  It's only when you want anything above channel 100 (I
 RN> think) that a cable box is needed and is a necessity when wanting to
 RN> view HBO, Cinemax, Showtime or Starz.  Then he would have an
 RN> interactive menu system.  Not as good as DirecTV's, but fair.

A friend of ours has TW cable in San Antonio. It is the minimum you can
buy and it has a guide to what's on. Easy to view while watching a program
at the same time. Our Dishnet menu is the same, but the picture is reduced
a lot more and I can scroll thru the entire list.

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