Re: Digital transition and cable tv

jack ak <akjack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Considering how few analog channels my local cable provider offers, and
considering what they charge me to rent set-top boxes, they must
consider that there's a very high cost to reserve a lot of bandwidth to
offer analog channels that only a few subscribers both to plug
pre-digital cable-ready televisions into.

Cable service is not "bandwidth" limited.

Really? You know something about the economics the rest of us don't?
Analog channels consume more bandwidth than standard definition digital
channels do.

Not all cable boxes are digital capable and don't need to be.

It depends on what equipment the head end has, don't you think? In my
area, all of the set-top descrambler boxes were withdrawn years ago and
they'd be useless today with digital channels. btw, even basic cable
includes certain channels available only digitally although there are
still a handful of channls one can tune in with a cable-ready analog
tuner; just can't get all the basic channels that way. They offer a
somewhat defanged digital box for basic-only.

NTSC signals are likely to be available for many years from
satellite receivers or local cable service receivers.

Dude, an analog signal doesn't have to be available from the satelite
nor broadcast for the cable head end to send an analog signal down the
coax. I don't believe the head end even receives the analog signal if
the digital signal is available with less interference.
.

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