That is not true, come February the digital only requirement is for ota only, cable even analog cable and satellite subs will not be effected buy this rule. It is true that most cable company's are phasing out their 75-80 or so channel analog tiers replaceing all but 12 - 20 or so channels with digital, however their is no mandatory set date for cable to do this and every cable company in evry comunity are on their own time table for doing this, for some it may be 2 or 3 or more years before they nead STB's for most of their tv's some already do. Also cable is actualy required to carry local broadcast channels in analog for a few more years, the cable companies will simply do a digital to analog conversion at the head in so subs with older tv's and vcr's will not need a box for thier locals.ImBack234 said:
But it's like this:Chris Freeland said:That is not true, come February the digital only requirement is for ota only, cable even analog cable and satellite subs will not be effected buy this rule. It is true that most cable company's are phasing out their 75-80 or so channel analog tiers replaceing all but 12 - 20 or so channels with digital, however their is no mandatory set date for cable to do this and every cable company in evry comunity are on their own time table for doing this, for some it may be 2 or 3 or more years before they nead STB's for most of their tv's some already do. Also cable is actualy required to carry local broadcast channels in analog for a few more years, the cable companies will simply do a digital to analog conversion at the head in so subs with older tv's and vcr's will not need a box for thier locals.
What I said above has bean repeated many times now on these forems for at least 2 years now, it amases me how this Febuary cut off for cable miss information continues to be posted.
Most company's are already doing it. For every 1 analog channels they can replace it with like 10 or more digital channels. So between space and making money what do you think they will do?RasputinAXP said:
In my area Comcast has moved both C-SPANS to their digital tier, according to a neighbor. But you're right about analog & cable.Chris Freeland said:That is not true, come February the digital only requirement is for ota only, cable even analog cable and satellite subs will not be effected buy this rule. It is true that most cable company's are phasing out their 75-80 or so channel analog tiers replaceing all but 12 - 20 or so channels with digital, however their is no mandatory set date for cable to do this and every cable company in evry comunity are on their own time table for doing this, for some it may be 2 or 3 or more years before they nead STB's for most of their tv's some already do. Also cable is actualy required to carry local broadcast channels in analog for a few more years, the cable companies will simply do a digital to analog conversion at the head in so subs with older tv's and vcr's will not need a box for thier locals.
What I said above has bean repeated many times now on these forems for at least 2 years now, it amases me how this Febuary cut off for cable miss information continues to be posted.
But it is a DATE that is being branded into the publics mind as the day analog ends. A perfect date for cable to make such a switch.Chris Freeland said:
I'm just waiting to see the sh*% hit the fan. I know of people who already complained and are getting free stuff from the cable company. Friends have said they stay with cable cause they didn't need a box for every tv.:eek2:boba said:But it is a DATE that is being branded into the publics mind as the day analog ends. A perfect date for cable to make such a switch.
