 Greg_ZPremium
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Springfield, IL
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Re: Digital 2.0 Poll said by ComTech6:What happened to Starz and Cinemax HD ????? Not enough Bandwith, due to the pure fact that they have decided to keep a bunch of Analog stations to appease those that do not want to move to Digital. Insight needs to start going around with the DCT-700 for those that do not want the 25xx series box, and start upgrading to the 3xxx series boxes to start the move to ADS.
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1 edit | said by user=Greg_Z :
Not enough Bandwith, due to the pure fact that they have decided to keep a bunch of Analog stations to appease those that do not want to move to Digital. Actually, they could get SIX channels worth of bandwidth quite easily by simply getting rid of all the analog premiums on our system alone! It surprises me that we are one of the last systems that still has THIS many premiums still in analog. (most cable systems have either totally ditched analog premiums, or at least cut them down to the 1-2 top ones, not only for this reason, but because of so many people that were using pirate analog boxes & getting them all for FREE!)
I would bet that since at least a good majority of premium subs have digital boxes, it would NOT be that hard to the get the rest on digital as well. Not to mention those same subs would be getting MORE screens of those same premiums. |
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said by Greg_Z:said by ComTech6:What happened to Starz and Cinemax HD ????? Not enough Bandwith, due to the pure fact that they have decided to keep a bunch of Analog stations to appease those that do not want to move to Digital. Insight needs to start going around with the DCT-700 for those that do not want the 25xx series box, and start upgrading to the 3xxx series boxes to start the move to ADS. You are dead on correct but 90% of Insight customers are basic cable subscribers that going to be a lot of 7XX boxes. It’s not like that had not happen before in that past. Back in the late 70’s early 80’s when NOBODY had a “cable ready” TV basic cable was channel 2-> 13. You want you MTV? Rent the “decoder box” and everybody howled about that. To this day it is why people hates the cable company’s but they still pay the bill every month.
I say send basic cable back to the basic channel 2-> 13 . Switch all the “Cable plus” stuff to digital. Once the FCC mandates the turning off of the analog broadcast station then you can even zap the 2-> 13 channels |
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Greg_ZPremium
join:2001-08-08
Springfield, IL | Problem is, CATV companies have to keep a certain amount of Analog, due to FCC made sure. That is why we will always see Analog. Of course with this new overlay of certain Extended Basic Channels, no doubt you will be seeing them disappearing from the Basic lineup. That way those that are the holdouts will have to get a box to get the channels.
Comcast did this, along with a couple of others, and guess what, the move to total digital started right after that.
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said by user=monsterinlex :
I say send basic cable back to the basic channel 2-> 13 . Switch all the “Cable plus” stuff to digital. Once the FCC mandates the turning off of the analog broadcast station then you can even zap the 2-> 13 channels
The cable co are NOT required whatsoever to "turn off" analog service when the broadcast stations do. The pending 2009 shut-off date is ONLY for broadcast TV stations - cable can continue to stay in analog as long as they want. Matter of fact, there WILL be a majority of cable operators that will end up "downconverting" digital signals back to analog, so that customers do NOT have to have a digital box &/or TV. This will also give them a benefit over satellite customers - people will be able to continue using their analog TV sets just as they do now. (BUT, they will ALSO carry the digital HD signals as such, for the HD subs)
As a matter of fact, this is exactly how we have to get our local CBS affiliate in Springfield, since it is carried ONLY as a subchannel on our local digital MYTV affiliate. (who's analog signal was our CBS translator for our area) Insight picks up the digital CBS subchannel, downconverts it back to analog ch 3, then sends it back out on the system. |
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