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April 21, 2006

Cable radio goes bye-bye

The CRTC has decided nobody's listening to cable radio (which is more or less right) and they're going to ditch it in favor of more room on the spectrum for HDTV and digital channels. On the surface, that sounds alright to me, but if the cable companies employ their usual practices, that'll probably mean a whole lotta compressed, artifact-laden soup on the standard definition channels.

But I'll let Nordic Fury vent about image quality in the comments. His golden eyes and ears are scarred every time he turns on his television. :)

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On April 21, 2006 10:49 PM, cam c. said:

I actually used to have my stereo hooked up to cable radio in my teens... other than having to re-learn all the frequencies, it was amazing quality. I seem to recall that even CHED (the teenbopper radio station of choice in Edmonton during the 80s, now an all-talk station) had an FM cable feed.

My current stereo gets awful reception, even with the wire antenna strung halfway toward the window, so I was actually considering a three-way splitter and trying cable out... guess that won't be happening now.

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On April 22, 2006 8:13 AM, Warren Frey said:

To be honest, the only local radio I hear is five minutes of CBC AM in the morning as my alarm goes off. Almost all my audio content (and increasingly, video) is podcasts, and I go through a lot of them.

Even if I'm listening to actual "radio," it's either CJSR from Edmonton, KEXP from Seattle (more or less the same, alterna-tunes and snarky banter) or the BBC World Service. And it I want some electronic tunes, Radio ABF from France. Sorry, local advertisers! :)

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On April 25, 2006 3:59 PM, nordic fury said:

I used cable FM. Not often, but it beat the hell out of OTA reception.

As for artifacts--I don't see them anymore. I don't watch TV!!! HA HA HA!!!

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