Re: Why Buy a Converter?

"Rog'" <rcblinnNoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
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> "Bert Hyman" <bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Rog'" <rcblinnNoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Is there any reason for those of us who rely on cable or satellite,
>>> and expect that we always will, to buy a subsidized converter for
>>> our analog-TV's?  Maybe just in case someone blows up our
>>> cable-headquarters and takes out the satellites?
> 
>> Does your cable or satellite service give you all the digital
>> sub-channels that are available from your local stations OTA?
>> Can you receive your local channels from your satellite service at no
>> extra charge?
>> If your cable service does provide all the digital subchannels, do you
>> have to rent a digital converter from them in order to see them?
> 
> Hmmm.  Food for thought.
> I suspect that local OTA stations will only get one spot each from
> these service providers.  However, Cox is, at least, promising to
> analog sup****t three years.  "The signal will be down-converted
> from its digital format, enabling customers to receive digital
> broadcast programming in an analog format." 
> 
> 
> 

3 years from now,OTA DTV converters may not be available.They were only 
meant as a tem****ary fix for fairly new analog TVs already owned.
After some time,you may be expected to buy a new TV.

The OTA converters may be discontinued for lack of sales after the initial

rush to buy once the analog signals go silent.

-- 
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net