actually, I think, by law, most cable companies are required to retransmit local broadcast TV stations. This is so that local news and alerts (weather and disaster information) is available to the end user. It was also a concession to local municipalities when cable first came on the scene that it would improve reception for marginal range citizens and increase the penetration of advertisers on the local channels and not put those guys out of business that only watching nationally sourced commercials might.
So for this reason, its basically real time, not stored, and reformatted to NTSC for legacy customers and limited to the 10 or so channels you get for very, very basic cable. Everything else they are going to cable digital formats (not ASTC) for which you require converter boxes. This saves bandwidth so they can offer more channels with cable (not fiber) technolgy they use.
So for this reason, its basically real time, not stored, and reformatted to NTSC for legacy customers and limited to the 10 or so channels you get for very, very basic cable. Everything else they are going to cable digital formats (not ASTC) for which you require converter boxes. This saves bandwidth so they can offer more channels with cable (not fiber) technolgy they use.
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