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moon1234

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Re: A few observations

No you have your head in the technological sand. The cable companies could easily move channels to digital QAM unencrypted with addressable filters on a customers line. The customer can then hook up any device they plase to the cable and get the programming they pay for in a digital format using a digital TV with QAM tuner, Set top box, computer card, etc.

It would work just like analog does today and the technology is already there. Digital QAM can carry SD and HD just fine and almost all new DTV TVs have built in QAM tuners.

The cable companies want to make money on the set top boxes thru rent over the long term and thru advertising and PPV that can only be delivered through their boxes.

Almost all cable companies already use a hybrid system now. Any non-encrypted channel could easily be received on a QAM tuner and additional services could be received thru a cable set top box if the customer CHOOSES to get a box.

The FCC and congress need to slap the industry and hit them in the pocket book for making anti-consumer choices.

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Addressable filters? really? Where do you get one of those? .. or rather, who makes them?

Um.. addressable taps have been out for a while, but they failed miserably. In fact, I only know of one or two systems that ever tied them, one being in So Cal. And, at best, all you could do was activate or deactivate a port on the tap, that's it. If there was an addressable tap or filter to the level of controlling tiers, this would have been done already or being installed now. There is Far more money in a system that is addressable like that over the current system in place and many more benefits.

And yea.. slap them for making 'anti-consumer choices'.. please tell me these laws that say you have to offer products and service in the manner that the customer deems acceptable...the sh*t's getting really deep here.


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