Sometimes during simulcast, the picture gets snowy when NTV cuts in, Why?
In almost all cases today NTV is received by the cable company direct via satellite. Prior to satellite NTV was received by cable as an over the air signal. Cable headends located in fringe coverage areas were subject to reception problems, however today there is no reason why your NTV picture on cable should not be as good as any other signal cable delivers to your home. Simulcast is under control of the local cable provider, who should be receiving a good NTV picture via satellite. In fact the signal is virtually transparent, meaning that the feed received by the cable operator is as clear as the program leaving our Mast er Control Room. In order to provide simulcast, the cable company must switch off the incoming feed from the distant signal and split the NTV feed to supply, not just the NTV channel, but sometimes one or more other channels. If the cable operator is no t careful with the methods used to split and balance the signal, the NTV level fed to each channel could be differe
