Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 01/01/06 19:09

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:59:34 GMT, John in Detroit <blanked@blank.net>
Gave us:

>
>The only difference is the signal levels and noise levels which are
>acceptable.

No shit!

Why do you think that we now use an 18" dish for satellite reception
when, ON THE SAME BIRD, with analog it required an 8 foot dish?

Why can we pipe over 500 channels of programming through THE SAME
BIRD, when we used to only get two per transponder, for a total of 48
channels maximum?

Same bird, same power output, different signal content. Twelve
channels PER CARRIER instead of two. How did we accomplish this feat?
It certainly wasn't with defeatist attitudes like yours in the heads
of the best engineers in the country. Pretty simple shit. Digital
Transport Streams and FEC are the answer.

Case closed.

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