nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to JKL in NBK
Re: Analog channels
said by JKL in NBK :
... and theoretically the analog broadcast stations will be gone from cable. ...
no, that's not what's going to happen:
quote:
The agency also will look into whether cable operators and Verizon are confusing customers by linking the shift of the analog channel to the digital tier to the nation’s transition to digital broadcasts, Martin said.
The two moves are unrelated.
the cablecos are mandated to keep the analog channels for some period of time, so the analog channels will still be around on cable after the transition. At some point in the future, however, cablecos will be allowed to stop all analog transmissions and go all digital (which they really want to do right now).
the issue is that cablecos are removing channels from that analog line up and putting the channel onto a digital tier, to reclaim the bandwidth for digital (HD mainly). When that happens, the analog customer has that many fewer channels and thus the brouhaha. |
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