"James Sweet" ) writes:
"z" wrote in message
ups.com...
got an old..... Sony Trinitron. electronic tuning, so it's not that
old, but mono. switched to CATV input, it gets (analog Comcast)
channels 2-40 perfectly, gets nothing from 41-99. Now that's just too
clean a break to be anything other than design, so does anybody know
what gives?


CATV is not cable TV, it's community access television, they're different.


No, it's "Community Antenna TV". In other words, the origins of cable,
where someone would stick up a big antenna and share the signal. Eventually,
the antenna part was forgotten, and it was simply the feed system that
became important, ie "Cable".

So the fact that the tv set would be switched to "CATV" is not an error
on the part of the manufacturer, and does not suddenly bring in the local
access channel. It means "cable", or to look at it differently, "cable"
is slang for CATV.

Michael