Sahrin
join:2004-05-15
Houston, TX | What purpose does this rule serve?
It seems to me that cable analog transmission should die at the same time OTA analog does.
What helpful consumer group is advocating for this particular cement boot? |
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MacLeech
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SoCal | Cable providers CAN drop analog... as long as they offer all the "must carry" channels in digital, give all their subscribers a way to receive them, and have no analog subscribers. |
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Vchat20
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join:2003-09-16
Warren, OH
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|  I'm all for it. It's time to finally get with the times:
Cell phone companies have went all digital.
OTA tv is going all digital here in the next couple months.
Landline telephone service has been all digital for years right up to the remote in your neighborhood (and could easily go all digital right to the home ala FiOS and Uverse.)
Comcast has already been making a full digital transition on the Chicago area and is providing legacy analog customers free set-tops to continue receiving their programming and so far that plan has been working out. Why does that region have to be the only one?
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| said by Vchat20  :Comcast has already been making a full digital transition on the Chicago area and is providing legacy analog customers free set-tops to continue receiving their programming and so far that plan has been working out. Why does that region have to be the only one? It doesn't. Philadelphia has cut customers the same deal as Chicago to go all digital.
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Vchat20
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1 edit | Yeah. Philadelphia. TWO regions. Out of how many in the whole country? I want to see EVERY region that is technically capable (read: Has enough set-tops in stock for every customer.) go this route. |
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TKJunkMail
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| said by Vchat20 :Yeah. Philadelphia. TWO regions. Out of how many in the whole country? I want to see EVERY region that is technically capable (read: Has enough set-tops in stock for every customer.) go this route. More regions may have done the same thing. Do you know otherwise? I only know about Philadelphia because I have relatives there.
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mtkeller
join:2008-07-30
Atlanta, GA | reply to Vchat20
We get free set-tops from Comcast in Atlanta, even though they seem to be taking their sweet time in moving channels to digital. |
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hottboiinnc
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join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to Vchat20
UVerse is copper from the VARD to your house. Not digital. |
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Vchat20
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join:2003-09-16
Warren, OH
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| said by hottboiinnc :UVerse is copper from the VARD to your house. Not digital. If that's the case, then digital cable is 'not digital', ota digital tv is 'not digital', cell phones are 'not digital'. The actual DATA going over the copper is DIGITAL which is the point.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
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said by hottboiinnc :UVerse is copper from the VARD to your house. Not digital. Do you know what the word "digital" means? |
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3 edits | reply to Sahrin
said by Sahrin :It seems to me that cable analog transmission should die at the same time OTA analog does. What helpful consumer group is advocating for this particular cement boot? Actually, OTA Analog will still be going after the Febuary 2009 date in some markets (like mine, Mendocino County in NW CA, we're served by Low Power Translators.)-
»www.lptvanswers.com/
LPT that serves us-
»www.tiaukiah.org/index.html
"Important - About Digital TV!
DO NOT WORRY! You will not be affected by digital TV changes right away. We will still transmit in analog.
However, you should still purchase a DTV conterter box using the DTV coupons ($40) from the government because eventually we will transmit DTV signals. If you wait until next year, the coupons may no longer be available. And note: you must buy a DTV converter that has analog pass-through in order to receive all TIA stations! It's not as hard as it sounds... read DTV on TV Translators to find out more.
It has yet to be determined how many stations we will be able to receive once the switch has been made to DTV."
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