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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
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 12:16:55 1985
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Reply-To: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker)
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica
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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 with  knows 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