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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Re: Cable TV Rules
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:10:37 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.181038.17264@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <3NOV199209442919@utrcv1> <720883631snx@nlbbs.UUCP> <1992Nov5.122636.5499@hemlock.cray.com>
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- In article <1992Nov5.122636.5499@hemlock.cray.com> andyw@aspen32.cray.com (Andy Warner) writes:
- >
- >In article <720883631snx@nlbbs.UUCP>, paula@nlbbs.UUCP (Paula Stockholm) writes:
- >>
- >> [...]
- >> I'm the last one who would be considered and advocate for the
- >> Cable Companies but . . . suppose you wanted to hook-up another
- >> water heater - you would expect to pay for the extra juice.
- >>
- >> The cable signal is not as easily "meter-able" but you would
- >> be using more cable signal.
- >
- >Good analogy. The power company at least has the honesty to put
- >a meter on your feed, and charge you accordingly.
-
- Oh, give me a break! Sending cable to more than one TV does not use up
- any more natural resources than sending it to one!
-
- If you REALLY want to keep on going with this STRAINED analogy, though,
- fine: As someone else suggested earlier, you can just go buy a distribution
- amp so that the cable company always "sees" a 75 ohm impedence going into
- your house, and the "power" you draw from their line is the same.
-
- >Every other utility has expended a non-trivial
- >amount of effort to bill you according to usage, it seems that the
- >cable & sat carriers would rather expend effort legislating than
- >developing a metering method (a gross generalisation, which I will
- >probably be mercilessly flamed for)..
-
- This is truely warped. You're telling me that if I use 4 22W flourescent
- bulbs, getting the equivalent of about 400W of incandescent light, the
- power company should charge me for 400W!? It would seem so, according
- to what I can figure out for your use of the word "usage"! (Since after all,
- with those 4 22W lights, I can light up a lot more space and enjoy my
- house a lot more!)
-
- I'm sorry if I sound a little hyperactive here, but I think you analogy
- is just FULL of holes.
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
-
-