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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (92238)	1/14/2003 2:50:11 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Charles, Yes, I am getting major networks, all through my cable. I am in New York City with Time Warner Cable. They offer CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, that have different percentages of HDTV between them, CBS and NBC have more. Then I have HBO, which is more or less 100% HDTV, 16x9, and also Showtime (but I am not a subscriber of Showtime, so I don't get it). TW Cable is now working on UPN (still very flaky - but who cares about UPN, and they have a PBS feed which is just HDTV documentaries, none of the current PBS shows. I got my HDTV cable box for $30 (shipping) plus monthly rental charges, which are the same as non-HDTV box, so there is no cost premium. I have to be a subscriber of Digital Cable to get HDTV, which I was subscribing to even before I got HDTV. There was a waiting list here last year for the cable boxes, since Scientific Atlanta couldn't make them any faster initially. I don't know if there still is a waiting list, but I doubt it. Anyway, the Cable TV Box has component output, which I believe is analog (for the video portion). So the signal comes in digital form all the way to my cable box, and the last foot has to be traversed over analog, which is where the controversy is. Hollywood wants to control this last foot, they want to dictate what kind of devices can be there, and how they work. The HDTV programming is in 1080 line interlaced format. Joe