On Thu, 8 May 2008 14:24:23 -0400 Tam <t-tammaru@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
|
| "Chet Bosco" <chet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
| news:MPG.228cf85d78b30eac9896b2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|> In article <UcmdnX3dc-PMrb7VnZ2dnUVZ_uOdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, t-
|> tammaru@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
|>> According to the local newspaper here in NJ, Cablevision is dropping
the
|>> analog feed on TLC, A&E, E!, SciFi, trueTV, Animal Planet, Travel
|>> Channel,
|>> CSPAN2, and QVC. Meanwhile, Comcast is dropping analog History
Channel,
|>> and
|>> Cartoon Network. Possibly others. Verizon Fios seems to be eliminating
|>> all
|>> analog, and will provide free STBs for the "small number" of analog
|>> customers.
|>>
|>> Tam
|>>
|>>
|>
|> If you're using the cable company's box then it doesn't matter what
they
|> do with analog channels.
|>
|> CB
|
| That's the whole point. Presently Comcast has a lot of customers with
analog
| TVs and no cable box. They can sign up for either something like 30, or
| alternatively for about 65 channels. You need a cable box for each TV.
At
| one time I had 4 analog TVs hooked up and no cable boxes. Also, people
with
| QAM and NTSC tuners could get the local stations digitally/HD and a lot
of
| other stations analog without a cable box.
If Comcast would toss a few more channels into the basic lineup, I'd
accept
their box. Then they could go digital and make more profit selling even
more
programming to the people that would pay more for it. If the box was
decent
I'd consider doing that myself. The channels I'll take for adding to the
basic lineup are C-SPAN2 (they only have C-SPAN in basic), C-SPAN3, CNN,
HLN,
MSNBC, and Fox News. More likely they will just impose digital on all the
customers at some time (different times for each system), and make
everyone
use a box of some kind (a QAM version of the cheap converter boxes that
are
on the market now, modified to only tune basic channels).
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