OT: Tuning Cable

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:58:14PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> My gripe was about how it takes 3 to 5 seconds on average, rarely less than 
> 2 full seconds, some times 10 or more in special cases+, just to change the 
> channel on a modern digital cable box, and how that is a huge loss in 
> goodness from older tv's where it was _instantaneous_ on the oldest analog 
> mchanical pre-cable tuner knob. 3 to 5 seconds to change a channel? When 
> I've got 200 channels to cycle through? Ridiculous!

Most cable converters can lock up to the analog channels almost
immediately; it's the digital (MPEG) channels that take a couple
seconds; mostly because they use Long GOP encoding to save bandwidth,
and you have to wait until you get a full-frame.

Cheers,
-- jra
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