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From: gary@think.ARPA (Gary Sabot)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: stereo broadcasts
Message-ID: <4134@think.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 19:03:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 30 19:03:19 1986
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References: <2757@sunybcs.UUCP> <476@tekcbi.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@think.UUCP (Gary Sabot)
Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <476@tekcbi.UUCP> jimb@tekcbi.UUCP (Jim Boland) writes:
>> 
>> I was thinking of buying the stereo tv receiver from radio shack 
>> 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?  
>Probably not as most cable converters have a CH3 or Ch4 modulator in them
>which are not stereo. 

Not true!  The General Instrument/Jerrold converter boxes don't convert
RF to video and then modulate the video on to channel 3-- they mix
(subtract) the incoming signal with a frequency that depends on what
channel you want to watch.  The mixing frequency is chosen so that the
output comes out on channel 3 or 4.

MTS stereo successfuly passes through these boxes.  Of course, sometimes
the MTS signal is lost by the cable company in their own equipment, and
thus never makes it to your converter box.