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unusual facts about digital cable


Digital cable

In 1990, General Instrument (which was later acquired by Motorola) demonstrated that it was possible to use digital compression to deliver high quality HDTV in a standard 6-MHz television channel.


Big Screen Preview Network

The Big Screen Preview Network (BSPN) is a digital cable channel focusing on upcoming movies and the current happenings in Hollywood.

CBC Radio

The CBC formerly operated Galaxie, a digital television radio service which provides 45 channels of music programming to digital cable subscribers in both English and French.

Entertainment Studios

It also operates six digital cable and satellite channels which broadcast a mix of original program content and syndicated programs that the company distributes for broadcast television through its Entertainment Studios Networks subsidiary.

Supertwink

Produced and made for subscribers of Howard TV, an In Demand digital cable service operated by Howard Stern, the film stars members of Stern's radio show staff and "Wack Packers".

Tube Time

Tube Time was a former programming block on Comcast Digital Cable's On Demand service which featured free episodes of many classic television series owned by Sony Pictures Television.


see also

BITE

BiteTV, a Canadian English language category 2 digital cable specialty channel

Cable Company of Trinidad and Tobago

Scientific Atlanta digital cable boxes were provided to all customers in 1999 and 2000, after which the company tried to implement tiered service packages.

Cogeco

Cogeco Cable utilizes Motorola and Pace set-top boxes for delivery of their digital cable services.

Discovery Health

Twist TV, a Canadian English language digital cable channel on human medical topics formerly known as Discovery Health

Media in Thunder Bay

Other Canadian network affiliates available to all cable subscribers in Thunder Bay include CBLFT-DT (Radio-Canada) from Toronto and CFTM-DT (TVA) from Montreal -- CTV service is available only to digital cable customers.

Selectable Output Control

The approved output devices are HDMI, all digital outputs that CableLabs has approved for unidirectional digital cable products, or any MVPD-approved protected output for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) or Satellite Broadcasters.

WNYE-TV

Among other WNYE-related productions, Secrets of New York has been syndicated nationally to public television stations, and it and Blueprint: New York City have been offered to the now-defunct digital cable and satellite network The Documentary Channel (both it and Halogen TV were replaced by Pivot in August 2013), which in turn has provided some programming to WNYE from its library.