Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nicmad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown From: brown@nicmad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Stereo Sound for Cable? Message-ID: <190@nicmad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-May-85 01:04:16 EDT Article-I.D.: nicmad.190 Posted: Wed May 29 01:04:16 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 02:26:25 EDT References: <331@pertec.UUCP> <188@nicmad.UUCP> <11084@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) Distribution: net Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI Lines: 33 In article <11084@brl-tgr.ARPA> ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes: >> HBO and The Movie Channel I know are broadcasting in stereo. I understand that >> the Disney Channel is as well. But, the stereo information is NOT in the MTS >> format. It is meant to be placed onto the FM band of your local cable system. >> If you didn't know it, MTV can only be carried on a cable system if the stereo >> audio is also carried on the FM band. >> >Great, now all I have to do is convince Cablevision to send it along. >They only provide "sythesized" stereo for HBO. The only real stereo >we get is MTV. A little tidbit of information that I learned today from my talk with the head-end engineer of my cable company. HBO is stereo in the west coast feed only, at this point in time. Why? Because they are getting the new scrambled signal, which contains digital stereo information in the vertical blanking interval. The east-coast feed isn't going to start the scrambling until a month or two. My cable company has both of the M/A COMM decoder boxes (one for HBO and CINEMAX). I doubt if MTS will ever be broadcast on the birds as the transmission of the audio (on satellite) is done differently then normal television. All audio information is sent as separate sub-carriers. If MTS ever comes to cable, the cable company will create the MTS signal from the separate satellite subcarriers. -- |------------| | |-------| o| JVC HRD725U Mr. Video | | | o| |--------------| | | | | | |----| o o o | | |-------| O| |--------------| |------------| VHS Hi-Fi (the only way to go) ({!seismo,!ihnp4}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown)