Howdy... I have what may be a silly question for all you cable experts out there.
I am about to get digital cable from adelphia. I have heard and believe that local broadcst are carried analog rather than digital (despite what the rep told me when I speciffically asked the question...) Heck, the fact that reg cable will still work when I subscribe to the digital makes me veerrrrryyyy suspicious. Ticked as I may turn out to be after I hook up this box tonight, I still have a question tho...
My current setup is a regular coax cable going into my tivo, then feeding composite to my reciever, then composite to my tv. I could like to get a svideo reciever (thinking Sony De675 - on a budget here...) Assuming that the OTA channels are in fact analog on my cable service w/ digital cable, will I see any improvement from running the s-video from the box into the tivo then to the tv? Does the digital cable box somehow convert the analog to s-video, an pass this signal in a better manner than the final device would (i.e. my tivo, or my reciever? I realize this isn't the tivo forum, just thinking of it's reciever functionality)
The more I think about it, the more I think that extra step of translation - analog coax cable to digital convertor box to s-video to tivo - would be worse than just running the analog coax right to my tivo. Am I thinking right? I suspect pittsburgh adelphia is feeding me quite a line...
Oh well, thanks for your thoughts...
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I am about to get digital cable from adelphia. I have heard and believe that local broadcst are carried analog rather than digital (despite what the rep told me when I speciffically asked the question...) Heck, the fact that reg cable will still work when I subscribe to the digital makes me veerrrrryyyy suspicious. Ticked as I may turn out to be after I hook up this box tonight, I still have a question tho...
My current setup is a regular coax cable going into my tivo, then feeding composite to my reciever, then composite to my tv. I could like to get a svideo reciever (thinking Sony De675 - on a budget here...) Assuming that the OTA channels are in fact analog on my cable service w/ digital cable, will I see any improvement from running the s-video from the box into the tivo then to the tv? Does the digital cable box somehow convert the analog to s-video, an pass this signal in a better manner than the final device would (i.e. my tivo, or my reciever? I realize this isn't the tivo forum, just thinking of it's reciever functionality)
The more I think about it, the more I think that extra step of translation - analog coax cable to digital convertor box to s-video to tivo - would be worse than just running the analog coax right to my tivo. Am I thinking right? I suspect pittsburgh adelphia is feeding me quite a line...
Oh well, thanks for your thoughts...
Twist