Video Asylum

Posted by petew (A) on April 02, 2005 at 10:21:45

In Reply to: Hard facts - It's not about 'belief' posted by AbeCollins on March 27, 2005 at 00:27:07:

I think there's somthing wrong with what you belive about the propagation of electromagnetic information through a coax cable.

You say >> "...100-feet at 150-MHz. What does this mean? You just lost half your signal through the cheap cable." <<

But in my house, I have over 200 feet of cheap cable between the satellite dish and the plasma at the other end of the house, with a dozen or so splices and junctions and receivers and boxes and such like in the betwixt. By your belief system: I should have lost both halves of my signal!

Problem is: I believe what I see, and I see: the picture is fine!

I think people are inclined to believe things in spite of the facts--which is why marketing is such a successful and profitable religion.

I used to have the same problem about milk.

I started drinking 2% milk a while back, thinking that I was consuming 98% less milk fat. But after two decades, I'm as fat as I ever way--fatter even.

Then one day I discovered that "whole" milk...is only about 4% milk fat.

So really, there is hardly any difference between whole milk and losing half your signal with the 2% milk.

I gotta beleive: same is true with wire.

Anyway, I can't tell the diffence, but hey, if you think the stars and motions of the planets hold an influence over your enjoyment of video--God bless!