Re: analog equipment and the FCC


"David McCall" <mccallmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:30:49 -0400 Rick Merrill
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| Recent FCC regulations will make analog over cable (that's right, over
| cable) obsolete by Feb 2012.

Technology did that back in the early 1990's. The FCC is just now
catching up.

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Phil,

I don't understand your point. My local Time Warner cable company
delivers nearly 70 analog TV channels to this day in analog format. Are
you referring to some cable companies which are purely digital?

73's
Smarty

I heard that too.

Oops, het the send too soon.

It came as a suprise because I wouldn't have thought that the FCC had
much control of the signals transmitted over a privately owned wire or
fiber.

Not a big surprise though. The cable industry has wanted to get rid of
analog
for several years. I guess their lobbiest are doing their job.

David


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