Posted by Jeff Rife on 12/26/27 11:29

Kimba W. Lion (kimbawlion@aol.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> littlejoeflub@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >In addition to analog tuners (which haven't been able to pick up decent
> >OTA signals since the mid-1980's when the cable industry boomed and
> >made even easy reception with a coat-hanger impossible)
>
> Fascinating. Exactly how did cable companies ruin OTA reception?

There is a conspiracy theory that says that stations stopped caring about
end-user reception once cable had a high penetration, because if the cable
company could receive the signal, then so could "everybody" (through the
cable, of course).

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