Patent ID: 8902369

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an input point operative to receive a multichannel analog RF signal; a demultiplexer including a plurality of amplifier-and-filter banks coupled to said input point operative to provide a plurality of RF signals from said multichannel analog RF input signal in respective ones of bands of frequencies, said bands of frequencies including an upper band of frequencies and a lower band of frequencies, said upper band of frequencies and said lower band of frequencies being adjacent in a frequency domain; a plurality of analog-to-digital converters coupled to said demultiplexer operative to digitize respective ones of said plurality of RF signals; a digital tuner coupled to said plurality of analog-to-digital converters operative to provide a plurality of digital television channel content signals from said plurality of digitized RF signals, said digital tuner having a channel selector input; and a plurality of demodulators coupled to said digital tuner operative to demodulate said plurality of digital television channel content signals simultaneously and separately, wherein said digital tuner selects a particular number of said plurality of digital television channel content signals as a subset of the number of said plurality of digitized RF signals in response to information on a set of channels selected by a user; said information is communicated to said channel selector input; an RF signal in the vicinity of a band edge between said upper band of frequencies and said lower band of frequencies in said frequency domain is processed by each one of two of said plurality of amplifier-and-filter banks independently as a signal in each one of said upper band of frequencies and said lower band of frequencies; said upper band of frequencies encompasses from 300 MHz to 600 MHz; said lower band frequencies encompasses from 5 MHz to 300 MHz; and said band edge is 300 MHz.