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To: John Rieman who wrote (47943)	12/17/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: Carnac	Respond to of 50808

A cable system shouldn't need encoders except for a couple of reasons: - offer quality above or below what HITS xmits (http://www.hits.com). Why recode HBO at every cable plant when you can do it once ? - HITS remodulation royalties are too stiff - need to convert local TV to digital Carnac, if he were an MSO, would gradually replace each analog cable channel with a digital carrier, and then copy each remaining analog channel with a digital equivalent so consumers can PVR the thing. It might be a cheaper solution than placing an encoder in each PVR box. This is also the best strategy to compete with DBS.