Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!speaker From: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Laser and Vcr stuff Message-ID: <514@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 12:16:55 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcb.514 Posted: Fri Nov 1 12:16:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 12:16:47 EST References: <21169@mgweed.UUCP> <1557@utcsri.UUCP> <2659@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica Lines: 21 Summary: In article <2659@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: >If you don't have >cable, off-the-air signals are often too poor to be worth recording. > >Will Cable signals also are often too poor to be worth recording. I have an A/B switch on all of my equipment because my antenna receives excellent signals, but the cable is true garbage. I am at the end of about 20 miles of coax withknows how many amplifiers and knows how many taps, each introducing noise or echoes. Measuring the smear on the screen, it looks like everyone lives about 50-75 meters apart. That is why I had looked forward to DBS! Think of it; a quality signal beamed directly to your home, without the thousands of echoes of all of your friends. All of the legalities nice and defined. No one calling you pirate. The possibility of HDTV. Alas, it was/is not to be. --Kne