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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: stereo broadcasts
Message-ID: <528@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 14:38:12 EST
Article-I.D.: nicmad.528
Posted: Sun Jan 26 14:38:12 1986
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References: <2757@sunybcs.UUCP> <527@nicmad.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <527@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>In article <2757@sunybcs.UUCP> ugthomas@gort.UUCP (Timothy Thomas) writes:
>>
>>I was thinking of buying the stereo tv receiver from radio shack (instead
>>of buying a whole new T.V.).  I have cable, so the easiest way to hook
>>it up would be to run cable from the remote tuner to it (so the stereo
>>tv receiver would always be tuned to Ch. 3).
>>Would this work?  Would the tuner convert the stereo signals from other
>>stations to stereo on Ch. 3?
>
>No.  Home (consumer) tuners change the incomming RF signals to baseband
>signals.  That is done so that video and audio outputs can be supplied.
>That signal is then converted to RF, ie, channel 3 or 4.  The MTS signal
>will be lost.  Even if it was a MTS tuner (which you don't have, or
>you wouldn't be asking this question), the RF output would still be mono.
>I haven't seen any consumer device with MTS encoder included.

It has come to my attention that the original writer may have meant cable
tv converter, instead of remote tuner.  If he has a cable tv converter box
that can be remote controlled to tune cable channels down to channel 2
or 3 or 4, then what he originally asked may work.

It was because of the unfortunate use of the word tuner instead of converter,
that I gave the answer I did.

So, another answer to the question is yes, if and only if the cable converter
that he has is one of the IF type converters.  If it is one of the baseband
type converters (Zenith Z-Tac, etc), then it won't work.  Baseband converters
lose the MTS information when demodulating the audio.

I help this helps clear up the thing a little more.
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