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Essentially a QAM modulator - HD input is RGB from the VGA output of your computer.

Reading the install instructions, there is brief mention of installing a provided notch filter in series with your cable feed. This creates a notch where ZeeVee can create a new channel. Quite similar to the old analog NTSC modulators; instead, uses the better QAM that cable systems and most HD TVs can detect and decode.

Question: how does ZeeVee know what notch filter to provide? Different cable systems have different empty channels. The docs don;'t seem to provide much detail in this area.

Then again, if you are not using cable feed, then you have the entire cable bandwidth available.

Somehow, I would have expected that future set top cable or satellite decoder boxes would do something like this. Like the ch3/ch4 modulators of old.

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