Cable systems that do not carry all network affiliates from their home DMA: Part 2

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This is a continuation of an old thread that was closed for inactivity:

https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/cable-systems-that-do-not-carry-all-network-affiliates-from-their-home-dma.701590/page-2

Spruce Knob Cable has two such systems:
Pendleton County (Harrisonburg DMA)
Harrisonburg: ABC HD, CBS HD, FOX HD (NBC missing)
Clarksburg: ABC HD, NBC HD
Bluefield: CW SD
https://www.spruceknob.net/pdf-guides/pend-tv-guide.pdf

Pocahontas County (Roanoke-Lynchburg DMA)
Roanoke-Lynchburg: CBS SD, ABC SD, Fox SD, CW SD (NBC missing)
Clarksburg: NBC HD, CBS HD, ABC SD
Bluefield: NBC HD, CW HD
https://www.spruceknob.net/pdf-guides/poco-tv-guide.pdf

 

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US7039048B1 - Headend cherrypicker multiplexer with switched front end - Google Patents

A headend or central office or satellite uplink facility for receiving upstream video-on-demand requests and MPEG transport streams containing video program data and packetizing said video data into TCP/IP or UDP/IP packets and LAN packets and routing them through a switch to one or more...

patents.google.com

^^^
...depacketizes the MPEG data, partially or fully decompresses the data and recompresses the data to another smaller bandwidth...


Even if the cable systems carry the local network HDTV content, they may reduce the HDTV image quality by using a "cherrypicker" device to partially decode then re-encode the MPEG-2 video data at a lower data rate (it'll still be 1080i or 720p HDTV, just with more of chance of "macroblocking and/or banding) - IMHO, putting up a TV antenna gets the best quality image from local TV broadcasts.


Kirk Bayne