Monday 26 March 2012

Technical information

The accepted for arresting manual over agenda cable television systems in the United States is now anchored as both 64-QAM and 256-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), which is defined in SCTE 07, and is allotment of the DVB accepted (but not ATSC). This adjustment carries 38.47 Mbit/s application 256-QAM on a 6 MHz channel, which can backpack about two abounding ATSC 19.39 Mbit/s carriage streams. Each 6-MHz approach is about acclimated to backpack 7–12 agenda SDTV channels (256-QAM, MPEG2 MP/ML streams of 3–5 Mbit/s). On abounding boxes with QAM tuners (most conspicuously the DVR boxes), High Analogue versions of bounded channels and some cable channels are available.

Digital Cable allows for the advertisement of EDTV (480p) as able-bodied as HDTV (720p, 1080i, and eventually 1080p). By contrast, analog cable transmits programs alone in the 480i architecture (the everyman television analogue in use today).

The ATSC standards cover a accouterment for 16-VSB manual over cable at 38.4 Mbit/s, but the encoding has not yet acquired advanced acceptance. Some MATV systems may backpack 8-VSB and QAM signals, mostly in accommodation barrio and agnate accessories that use a aggregate of earthbound antennas and cable administration sources (such as HITS or "Headend in the Sky", a assemblage of Comcast that delivers agenda channels by agenda to baby cable systems).

Digital cable channels about are allocated aloft 552 MHz, the high abundance of cable approach 78. (Cable channels aloft approach 13 are at lower frequencies than UHF advertisement channels with the aforementioned number, as apparent in North American cable television frequencies.) Between 552 and 750 MHz, there is amplitude for 33 6-MHz channels (231–396 SDTV channels); if traveling all the way to 864 MHz, there is amplitude for 52 6-MHz channels (364–624 SDTV channels).

In the U.S., agenda cable systems with 750 MHz or greater activated approach accommodation are appropriate to accede with a set of SCTE and CEA standards, and to accommodate CableCARDs to barter that appeal them.

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