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From: phil@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Phil Erickson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: MTS stereo modulation
Message-ID: <2095@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 20 Nov 89 03:31:44 GMT
Reply-To: phil@calvin.spp.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics Group
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Keywords: TV MTS stereo cable
Summary: where is it?

I have an opportunity to purchase a friend's TV.  Being a fairly recent
TV, it has MTS stereo decoding capability.  However, this feature would
be useless if my cable company doesn't pass along stereo information on
those channels it carries.

A call to the cable company itself was of no help, as the person on the
other end didn't understand quite what I was trying to ask, so:

Where exactly in the ~6 MHz bandwidth of a normal TV signal does
MTS stereo information lie?  What's the modulation method used, out
of curiosity? (quadrature, etc.)  And, most importantly, could a cable
company 'block' the stereo information by simply not passing that portion
of the TV signal's bandwidth along, or does the fact that I receive a NBC
channel (say) now mean that I automatically get the MTS information, if
I had a TV intelligent enough to decode it?

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