[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun(s)

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Thu Jan 14 20:39:38 UTC 2010


On Thu, January 14, 2010 10:57 am, Johnny wrote:
>> No, it's pure marketing. Many digital cable signals run well below 300
>> Mhz.,
>> though it is true that the upper end of CATV systems keeps going up.
>>
>> It's the numbers that matter, "digital" simply means it will pass the
>> newer
>> blue electrons :-)
>
> I know they digital/analog is technically  irrelevant. But I don't see
> harm in it and it is standard practice to put "digital" on the
> splitters that will work with the new digital cable and internet
> services.

I figure it's all marketing silliness.  Like "digital-ready" speakers back
in the '80s, and "Y2K Compliant" ethernet cables in the late '90s.  You
gotta convince people they need new stuff somehow.




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