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Originally Posted by walterbeers
I never knew these existed (at least they weren't used here in Omaha) until Jamie (jstout) told me about this post yesterday. I assume it was analog video over a phone line, but when I have more time, I will research it some more, just out of curiosity. I remember a microwave link in which there was a movie channel (maybe 2), that used a dish aimed toward a tall building in central Omaha, transmitting mainly movies. (Early HBO?) of course this was before cable ever came to Omaha. Don't remember what the service was called anymore.
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That microwave system was here in Milwaukee too. One of my professors used to pirate it. He used a round metal sled for a dish, and an oscillator to hetrodyne it down to the broadcast band...Supposedly he got a clearer picture than those in his area, but he had to periodically adjust the osc. to compensate for drift.
There is no way you could get NTSC video quality over a phone line at an acceptable frame rate for TV back then.