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Jerrold box in chorus area

  • 07-04-2006 1:46pm
    #1
    kco3d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭


    Could anyone give me the full model number of a Jerrold General Instruments decoder used in any of the chorus cabled areas.......please

    Thanks......


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Why?

    There is no possible legitimate reason to need to know this.

    I stand to be corrected.


  • #3
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    If you've a decent TV, and by that I mean anything manufactured after 1977, with stereo speakers, you should get connected to a digital service via Chorus, Sky or anyone else.

    Those Jerrold boxes are straight out of the late 70s / early 80s and DESTROY tv signals. They're not decoders per se they're "descramblers". They've no SCART sockets, no phono sockets, seem to mangle NICAM and even teletext.

    I don't know why they were used in the first place. They're a truely aweful peice of technology. When used with MMDS they even manage to give you a shock if you touch the metal F-connector plug. I don't know that Chorus' analogue MMDS equipment would pass basic Irish electrical certification or comply with CE.

    If you've a widescreen, plasma, decent post 1970s nicam set.. stay VERY VERY far away from Jerrold-based Chorus analogue. It is a truely horrible service that should have been dead and burried 15 years ago.

    I would seriously worry about Chorus' future based on the horrendous quality of signal that they're providing to tens of thousands of homes in Cork City. People are changing to sky in vast numbers. At least NTL can provide 15 channels in clear analogue and thus maintain a subscriber base, even without going digital. Chorus analogue cable simply has no advantages / selling points anymore.

    The network's been obsolete since about 1983.


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    They are cheap US analog Cable TV gear, like most of the rest of Chorus Analog Cable and analog MMDS.

    The Chorus Analog system (Cable & MMDS) was actually obsolete and substandard for PAL (designed for NTSC) the day it was specified.

    UPC now owns Chorus and NTL Irteland and will be upgrading / unifying / fixing the network prior to rebranding so as to not sully the brand.


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