FCC - cable dual visability

[Peter Murray]

Cable companies are certainly welcome to transit every channel in whatever
format they find most convenient - whether analog or any of a number of
digital formats. 

For best use of their bandwidth, it is simply a (very inexpensive) chipset
at the subscriber end that would make those channels viewable (via
S-Video, composite or RF) by those with analog-only television receivers.

There is no reason why they'd need to provide analog at their *head end*. 
I didn't read that there was a "no converter" requirement...

-Peter

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Peter Murray (N3IXY)
Oak Hill, VA

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Ken VanTassell wrote:

> Bob,
> 
>    I have to respectfully disagree with you on this one. If you get
> your tv over the air, after Feb. 2009 you will get nothing on your
> set. Why should only cable operators be forced to continue analog ?
>   There is only so much bandwidth on cable and it is limiting the
> amount of HD content available. Many (like myself) have invested in
> large HD sets and want all the additonal HD channels. Each analog
> channel can carry 5 SD digital signals or two HD signals in its place.
>     The cable companies are only being forced to keep the "must carry"
> stations in analog and I don't know many people who will be happy with
> only 12 or so OTA channels . Most will need a digital converter box
> anyway. This whole idea is a complete waste of available cable
> bandwidth.
> 
> -Ken