 odogCable Centric Vendor BiasedPremium,VIP
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 ·Comcast
| reply to dmeyer
it's called simulcast many companies already offer an "all-digital" version of their channel lineup. My company for example has 80 channels of analog and those same 80 analog channels are also sent via digital in 8 QAM's. An analog TV tunes the native EIA channel, and the digital boxes tune the QAM's. So a TV watching channel 2 is tuning channel 2 @54MHz, the digital box is tuning channel 85 pid 1 etc.
The coupons are not for QAM converters, they are for ATSC tuners and they won't work with cable.
Analog is also a so called "killer" app for many cable ops as you don't need a box and can continue to use the same TV you've had for years. |
