 meskinctMad Scientist at WorkPremium
join:2002-01-07
Danbury, CT
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1 edit | Waiting to see what my Cable Co does So has it been decided what the local cable companies are going to do? All digital? Still send analog?
In my case, I'm all analog. No STB at all. So, I'm waiting to see their plan and then I can come up with my plan.
FYI - Comcast is the MSO here.
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 Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ | Cable does not have to switch to all digital. They just have to make sure their equipment at the head-end is taking the digital feed and not the analog feed... and that's where DirecTV is starting to have issues. They receive a lot of their local channels via antenna the local POP's in the cities where they serve local channels... DirecTV has to go and upgrade all that equipment by 2009. Some locals send fiber to DirecTV's POP, but not all do. The ones that DTV picks up off-air are the stations that are in trouble if DirecTV doesn't get started upgrading their equipment in all the cities. |
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 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | reply to meskinct
said by meskinct:So has it been decided what the local cable companies are going to do? All digital? Still send analog? In my case, I'm all analog. No STB at all. So, I'm waiting to see their plan and then I can come up with my plan. FYI - Comcast is the MSO here. It's probably a safe assumption that at some point, they'll switch everyone to all digital. That was already done in chicago from what I understand.
Whether it will coincide with this other date remains to be seen. It might make sense that they do decide to do it then.
Why shake everyone up twice if they don't have to?
And clearly, this carries with it a lot of benefits for the cable co's from the ability to better control levels of service people receive to freeing up all important bandwidth for more HDTV.
Personally, I'll probably be amazed if they don't go along with this and make everyone subscribe to digital.
After all,they have the perfect excuse to do so in that so many will THINK they have to go all digital anyway.
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Does anybody know If Dish Network will have any problems?  |
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
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| said by zoom314:Does anybody know If Dish Network will have any problems? Satellite services are fully digital - even if they were not only over-the-air transmission is affected. Even though Satellites use radio they are not affected by this FCC ruling.
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For some reason I'd bet that DirecTV already receives the digital signal in most areas. |
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said by tschmidt:Satellite services are fully digital - even if they were not only over-the-air transmission is affected. Even though Satellites use radio they are not affected by this FCC ruling. Except that both Sat providers pick up the majority of their local stations analog signals for retransmission and both have testified that they do not have the capability to convert all to digital retransmission because the majority of locals are still analog only. »www.tvpredictions.com/echo090407.htm |
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I am also on analog cable still and I plan on being that way until I am forced to upgrade.
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I guess it looks like we have no problem until 2012 now, unless the cable company decides to drop analog completely and give everybody a box.
(See »That has been over ruled, by FCC) |
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