Sahrin
join:2004-05-15
Houston, TX | What purpose does this rule serve?
It seems to me that cable analog transmission should die at the same time OTA analog does.
What helpful consumer group is advocating for this particular cement boot? |
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MacLeech
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join:2001-07-14
SoCal | Cable providers CAN drop analog... as long as they offer all the "must carry" channels in digital, give all their subscribers a way to receive them, and have no analog subscribers. |
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bugabuga
join:2004-06-10
Austin, TX | Digital capacity?
I wonder how do they count Mhz of digital capacity  |
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Vchat20
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join:2003-09-16
Warren, OH
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Re: What purpose does this rule serve?
I'm all for it. It's time to finally get with the times:
Cell phone companies have went all digital.
OTA tv is going all digital here in the next couple months.
Landline telephone service has been all digital for years right up to the remote in your neighborhood (and could easily go all digital right to the home ala FiOS and Uverse.)
Comcast has already been making a full digital transition on the Chicago area and is providing legacy analog customers free set-tops to continue receiving their programming and so far that plan has been working out. Why does that region have to be the only one?
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TKJunkMail
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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| said by Vchat20  :Comcast has already been making a full digital transition on the Chicago area and is providing legacy analog customers free set-tops to continue receiving their programming and so far that plan has been working out. Why does that region have to be the only one? It doesn't. Philadelphia has cut customers the same deal as Chicago to go all digital.
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Vchat20
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join:2003-09-16
Warren, OH
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1 edit | Yeah. Philadelphia. TWO regions. Out of how many in the whole country? I want to see EVERY region that is technically capable (read: Has enough set-tops in stock for every customer.) go this route. |
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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| said by Vchat20 :Yeah. Philadelphia. TWO regions. Out of how many in the whole country? I want to see EVERY region that is technically capable (read: Has enough set-tops in stock for every customer.) go this route. More regions may have done the same thing. Do you know otherwise? I only know about Philadelphia because I have relatives there.
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cabledad
join:2007-03-13
Pottsboro, TX
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| small cable systems
There you guys go comparing the thousands of really small cable companys to Comcast and Time Warner.The FCC should not be telling these small operators they have to do anything ,there customers will tell them.If they don't like what the operator does they will go to dish.I guess that in the State of Texas there is 300 to 500 small cable systems that are on the verge of going broke.Chuck |
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mtkeller
join:2008-07-30
Atlanta, GA | reply to Vchat20
Re: What purpose does this rule serve?
We get free set-tops from Comcast in Atlanta, even though they seem to be taking their sweet time in moving channels to digital. |
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Dogfather
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2 edits | reply to cabledad
Re: small cable systems
said by cabledad :I guess that in the State of Texas there is 300 to 500 small cable systems that are on the verge of going broke.Chuck I would be guessing that you would be guessing wrong. |
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hottboiinnc
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join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to Vchat20
Re: What purpose does this rule serve?
UVerse is copper from the VARD to your house. Not digital. |
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Dogfather
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | What does the FCC care?
Why should the FCC give a crap whether or not a cable system offers analog channels?
Gotta love unfunded mandates. Where is the requirement that DBS offer analog channels? |
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Vchat20
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join:2003-09-16
Warren, OH
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Re: What purpose does this rule serve?
said by hottboiinnc :UVerse is copper from the VARD to your house. Not digital. If that's the case, then digital cable is 'not digital', ota digital tv is 'not digital', cell phones are 'not digital'. The actual DATA going over the copper is DIGITAL which is the point.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
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said by hottboiinnc :UVerse is copper from the VARD to your house. Not digital. Do you know what the word "digital" means? |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| reply to Dogfather
Re: What does the FCC care?
Must carry is done for the benefit of owners of traditional broadcast channels, not for consumers- otherwise the value of a broadcast license would greatly decline, as cable companies could cut off a large segment of the viewership. You see this already with some low-power stations, even affiliates of networks, that get cut off by cablecos.
As for DBS, I think the FCC recognizes the technical challenges in that case... if there was a reasonable and cost-effective way that all local stations could be carried, the FCC would likely require it. |
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Corehhi
join:2002-01-28
Bluffton, SC
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Re: small cable systems
I'm on a small cable company's cable. They are also the phone company and the only high speed internet. They charge more for digital TV and I would bet they will charge more forever for digital cable. You don't pay up and you will get analog for ever. They will simply give you a box down the rode to convert the digital signal to analog for you. Probably charge you for each additional box. |
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Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
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It looks like it's only a matter of time before I have to either get rid of the extra televisions or pay box fees on all of them. Nice. 
As if my cable bill isn't enough already. Perhaps the FCC will do something for the consumer that doesn't result in higher prices. Couldn't they just leave analog alone? Cable won't dump it if not forced because it's cable's biggest advantage over all of its competetion. One line, one fee, many televisions. |
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Da Man
join:2008-05-08
Hanover, PA | Since locals should be sent in the clear you don't need the CableCo's box to view them so its okay by me if they drop them. Not like there is much to watch on network TV these days anyway that every TV would need to able to view them. |
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stomp357
join:2003-04-13
Lake Charles, LA | Free conversion box
Fine. They can do away with analog, but don't force me to pay more than what I pay now for basic analog ($21.00), and provide the conversion box rent free. I didn't want this digital crap anyway. |
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luckykevin
join:2005-04-30
Arlington, TX
| Re: digital conversion woes/great upgrade
my area has seen
halmark
amc
tv guide channel
gsn
emt
 all moved to digital and be repalced with more analog channels
we have 80 analogs
plus 35hd
digital simulcasting
ondemand
h.s.i.
voipx2
 we are a now a 870mhz system up from 750mhz motorola.
we still have more room for 9 to 10 qams |
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