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Are You Being Cheated by Digital Cable?
Lauren Weinstein writes "Even though your cable company may claim that a channel is in a digital tier that you're paying for, they may be sending it to you in analog form, with associated negative effects. Surprise! Are You Being Cheated by Digital Cable? 'You're paying for digital, you should get digital. Outside of the lower video and audio quality that can be present on many analog feeds, third-party devices (like cableCARD TiVos) which could otherwise record a digital signal directly, will be forced to re-digitize an analog signal, with inevitable quality loss in the process. But how to know for sure if a channel is digital or analog as received?'"
It sounds like somebody peed in a certain moderators Cheerios this morning.
I'll give a hint to future moderators on how to fairly moderate. If it is interesting, insightful, funny, etc., then moderate it as such. If it is redundant (consult a dictionary if necessary) then moderate it as such. If it is a troll or flamebait then moderate it as such. If you don't like the content and feel that you need to be a content policeman--then go fuck yourself and stop moderating.
Come on, seriously: Unless you've spent a Toyota Camry's worth of dough on some huge-ass digital receiver television, you probably don't give a shit. This oh-so-exciting little conspiracy of cable television signal providers ought therefore to be relevant only to an idiot. And I can't imagine anything less relevant than that.