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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Why can I only watch two different programs with your service? With cable I could watch as many different shows as I have TVs.
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Our TV service is Digital. In other words - when you had cable, all channels were sent to you all the time. This is standard for any analog TV Service. Each channel is set to a frequency (example: Channel 3 = 61.25MHz & Channel 4= 67.25MHz). This allows for you to change your TV channels freely and pick up different channels (frequencies) by simply tuning them in. With the advent of the Digital TV signal - this can no longer work. All the digital signal is, is a series or 0s and 1's. Your TV would have no idea what this is and result in a snowy picture.
The Digital Set-top box we install in your house re-formats that 010101011110000 into an analog signal that your TV can read. That digital signal that your set-top box reads and reformats is a pretty big chunk of information. About 4.4 Mbs to be exact (roughly 4,400,000 zeros and ones per second / per channel) With two channels - what we offer - double that number. There is only so much bandwidth to use and watching 2 different TV programs uses about the maximum amount that technology allows for at this time. Dish - or Direct TV has the same problem - because it
is digital. With digital Cable - you have a set-top box and only have a digital signal to 1 tv. The rest are still analog.
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