Dont have to give away a thing -

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RickNY Premium join:2000-11-02 Manorville, NY Reviews: ·Optimum Online	Dont have to give away a thing quote: In compliance with the FCC regulations regarding the analog-to-digital switch, Comcast and others will still need to be giving out digital adapters to analog customers but customers The author implies that the cable company is required to give out these adapters at no charge, or that it can be tied in with the $40 coupons for digital boxes. The cable company is required to give out the adpaters (that much is logical, otherwise nobody on that tier would receive any channels with a digital QAM set) -- but the rates charged for said adapters is set entirely by the cable company. And the $40 coupons apply only to OTA boxes, not cable.
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Moon1234 @charter.com	I am so sick of people putting up "news" when they have absolutly no clue what is going on. There IS NO REQUIREMENT FOR ANY CABLE COMPANY TO GO DIGITAL AT ANY TIME. The digital transition is for OVER THE AIR ONLY!!!!! Again there IS NO REGULATION REQUIRING ANY DIGITAL FOR CABLE OR SATELLITE. If anything it would be to cable's benefit to leave many analog channels up after the transition. It will be an easy choice for those households who don't want to purchase many digital boxes to watch OTA. If a cable company chooses to go all digital and eliminate analog that is thier choice. There is NO LAW REQUIRING THEM TO TRANSITION TO DIGITAL. The minute you see a "news" story like this you know the poster has no clue what they are talking about.
Moon1234 @charter.com	to forum · permalink · 2008-06-20 06:07:54 ·
RickNY Premium join:2000-11-02 Manorville, NY Reviews: ·Optimum Online	said by Moon1234 : I am so sick of people putting up "news" when they have absolutly no clue what is going on. There IS NO REQUIREMENT FOR ANY CABLE COMPANY TO GO DIGITAL AT ANY TIME. The digital transition is for OVER THE AIR ONLY!!!!! Uhhh, the "news" about it is that cable is starting to move their channels off of analog and requiring customer's to get digital boxes in order to receive channels. It's really not to their benefit to leave channels on analog because now they have the opportunity to force it upon people because all of their competition is now requiring the use of boxes as well.. They free up large amounts of bandwidth, and make tons of extra money from box rentals and digitial package fees that now go along with getting digital boxes. The news is that the large companies are now starting to do this, despite the fact that they have no legal requirement to do it - but are doing it to line their own pockets more
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