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Re: What I don't quite get... said by RadioDoc:Verizon is evidently not raping the video before stuffing it into the pipe. These artifacts are introduced at the headend, and Comcast just plain doesn't give a crap how it looks. Verizon, evidently, takes some pride in video quality. VZ also has the luxury of a new system and is not expected/required to provide 50 to 60 channels of analog service to subscribers. I am sure if you asked anyone at Comcast they would love to wake up to their installed base being on all-digital 1Ghz systems and not having to compromise on video quality to stay competitive until they can either a.) Get all the systems upgraded or b.) not having to provide analog service but neither one of those are going to happen overnight. |
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | I'm not giving Comcast any slack with this. They've shifted the analogs into the noisiest channel positions and if they can't figure out how to get clean HD to their customers then they should quit advertising it. The bottom line is doing it right and delivering what they advertise is incompatible with their bottom line.
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Bullshit.
VZ is trying to get digital to analog adapters made so that the digital channels will work on older tvs.
Comcast should take the same approach, either that or give free boxes to free up the spectrum.
I have a digital tuner in all my tvs , so I have no worries , but some folks just don't like to see that they rape us for cable boxes. And Verizon is not immune to that at this point.
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 kpfx
join:2005-10-28
San Antonio, TX
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| Digital/Analog converter? Comcast is already working on that.
The article below (found here on BBR) shows the RFP they've put out for a low-cost digital converter so they could go to a 100% digital plant without leaving out the millions of people still using their analog television tuners.
»Comcast's $35 Digital Conversion Dongle
Over the next year or two the analog channels will get scaled back and things move to a digital format (unencrypted QAM).... that will ultimately save them the most bandwidth. |
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| Must have missed that , bad geek I am I missed it.
These should be given out by comcast with a sub to basic cable.
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Ztp1112
join:2005-03-18
Springfield, VA | reply to jmallory
what are you talking about THE ANALOG CHANNELS ARE ALL MANDATED BUY THE FRANCHISE verizon has analog channels not as many as the cable company because they chose not to get back to me in 2009 we we all are all digital
a analog channel takes up 6x as much space as a digital one |
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