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Re: More confusion: what exactly IS 'digital cable'? Is it fed into home via coax or phone line?

No.

Digital cable means that most channels are MPEG-2 encoded and transferred as data.

The set top box then performs MPEG-2 decoding for display on your television set.


Regards,
John Kotches


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