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OT - way off, But I am confused

Here in the Metro NY area, many of the major TV stations are now super-imposing at the beginning of the opening shots of TV shows with Available in HD on HD 4.1 or Tune to HD 7.3 etc. What are these new broadcasting numbers? I have a Sony 32" HD/CRT in the living room connected to our cable companies HDTV cable boxes, which when we want to view NY Ch. 2 cable box needs to be tuned to

702, NY Ch.4 is 704 and NY 11 is 711.

Upstairs in our bedroom we just bought a HDTV, forgot the size, either 27 or

32 inches, it is an LCD. Without a HD converter box we do get HD, but if I change boxes, the HD upstairs is remarkable. what I don't understand are these new numbers for tuning in a station.

Anyone else out there seeing these new numbers showing up on their programing?

Thanks

BG

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Bill Glass
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Those are the over the air digital channels numbers. For instance, channel 2 broadcasts a digital signal on channel 45.1. There may be a 45.2 showing sports scores or weather radar. Not all stations are doing this. It's called multicasting. PBS stations have several subchannels, as do many of the religious stations.

Chip

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cjdaytonjrnospam

Too many toys lead to confusion. I'll stick with the hand-cranked GE 12" B&W that my dad bought in 1948! Did you see Sid Caeser on the Admiral Broadway Review Saturday? That kid is good!

Karl

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midlant

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