| old people Sounds like a good time to get out of cable/internet support... all eleventy billion old people's cable goes out at once... |
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 sabersawPremium
join:2001-08-21
Dayton, OH
kudos:1 | This won't effect Cable or Internet at all. See MrMoody's post above. The loss of Over-The-Air analog tv won't effect cable or Sat systems at all.
The topic of cable dropping its analog signals is something totally different. That very well could happen. But it wouldn't be forced by the government, and more than likely wouldn't happen all at once either. |
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| The FCC made it so cable companies can not drop there analog band. I doubt it will hold though.
There was a post about it a few months back here on BBR...fyi |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA
1 edit | I think what the FCC was discussing a few months ago was dual and multi "must carry" and a final ruling is yet to be made about that. Completely digital cable systems would be exempt from the dual part of such a ruling. |
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| Re: cable dropping analong (was "old people") Cable operators are definitely planning to drop the analog channels...
... forcing everyone to get a STB for more control and awareness of what's being watched.
... getting many to splurge for new digital channels as well as DVR and HD service.
... using digital compression to get more usable bandwidth to compete with the likes of AT&T and Verizon.
The analog channels are dead, even if you get cable. It'll just be less obvious because most folks already have STBs. |
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| I just hope they are forced to use some kind of unencrypted digital format so that consumers can still hook up as many tvs as they want in their home. It would be a shame if the first tv costs 40 bucks and each successive tv is another 10 dollars. |
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