carlsson
Veteran Member
I have cable TV, although a limited selection of analogue channels. In the early 1990's, we had like 14 channels, but recently it has been cut down to 9 plus one local (joke-al) and the cable company's own info channel. One can subscribe to a digital receiver and select from more channels.
Today when I browsed the channels, I see that one channel has been moved to another frequency, and instead is a text screen saying that the cable company has added two new - state owned - channels of which one currently resides in the info channel frequency but will move to this frequency later this year and the other can be found elsewhere.
So, I start scanning for channels. I find the new frequency for the moved channel, I find the two new channels (of which one on a temporary location) and I find a third new channel that supposedly was added earlier this year but which I could never find back then.
Wow. From 11 to 14 channels in one day, that is an increase by more than 25%. Unfortunately, only one of those probably shows anything good. On my large TV, I can obtain all channels but on my old 14" Sharp, the moved channel is on a too high frequency for the tuner. It is however interesting that while the number of analogue channels have been cut one by one due to limited frequency span and that they need room for digital TV, suddenly there is room for two or three new channels as long as they are carried without license costs. So much for blaming technology.
Today when I browsed the channels, I see that one channel has been moved to another frequency, and instead is a text screen saying that the cable company has added two new - state owned - channels of which one currently resides in the info channel frequency but will move to this frequency later this year and the other can be found elsewhere.
So, I start scanning for channels. I find the new frequency for the moved channel, I find the two new channels (of which one on a temporary location) and I find a third new channel that supposedly was added earlier this year but which I could never find back then.
Wow. From 11 to 14 channels in one day, that is an increase by more than 25%. Unfortunately, only one of those probably shows anything good. On my large TV, I can obtain all channels but on my old 14" Sharp, the moved channel is on a too high frequency for the tuner. It is however interesting that while the number of analogue channels have been cut one by one due to limited frequency span and that they need room for digital TV, suddenly there is room for two or three new channels as long as they are carried without license costs. So much for blaming technology.