Ori Pessach wrote:
> 
> Trevor Boicey wrote:
> 
> >   Unrelated related story, I got a digital cable box
> > a while ago, and it also tunes analog stations but
> > internally it digitizes them somehow and then can
> > show them on TV with an overlay for program guide and
> > information and such.
> 
> If the box isn't resizing the analog image, it typically doesn't digitize
> it. It's just that those boxes are actually two cable boxes - an analog box,
> and a digital box. Sometimes the analog portion isn't as good as it should
> be.

  Are you sure it doesn't digitize it? It can
show menus and such over the image with the image
behind being darkened or alpha blended by the overlaid
image where they cover.

  That would be pretty nifty to do in analog.
 
> What kind of box is it?

  Scientific Atlanta 2000 High Definition.

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