From: bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
Subject: Re: Cable TVI interference
Keywords: catv cable television tvi
Article-I.D.: tvnews.1993Apr15.193218.13070
Organization: Tektronix TV Products
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In article <VL812B2w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca> jim@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (jim jaworski) writes:
>What happens when DVC (Digital Videon Compression) is introduced next 
>year and instead of just receiving squiggly lines on 2 or 3 channels 
>we'll be receiving sqigglies on, let's see 3*10 = 30 channels eventually.

Since the digital transmission schemes include error correction and
concealment, the performance remains about the same down to a very low
carrier-to-noise ratio, below which it degrades very quickly.  Hence,
digitally compressed TV is supposed to be less susceptible to interference
than amplitude modulated TV.

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