digital converter box -- surprising performance

[Kevin Vahey]

I have suspected this was the plan for awhile and when I saw the
Alaska company doing it it just confirmed it.

Honestly the cable companies have no choice if they want to compete
with satellite. I am not sure of the exact number of digital channels
can be placed where one analog channel currently resides but I think
it is about 10.

Forcing millions to rent a box will be a nice piece of change for the
cable companies. Cable is losing the batle in the burbs where people
who have a clear view to the bird grab a dish. Many of those customers
are also turning to Fios for internet and or cable.

Still cable will rule for a few more years in cities where apartment
dwellers have no choice but cable. Verizon admits they still can not
deliver Fios to mult-dwellings at this time which is why they have not
applied in places like Boston and Cambridge.



On 6/14/08, Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com> wrote:
> Check out this article in USA Today:
>
> http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2008-06-12-cable-digital_N.htm?csp=tech
>
> All-digital cable move may spark viewer ire
>
> Excerpted->Cable companies are eager to sweep away analog channels to make
> room for digital high-definition and interactive services. And Comcast ...
> is about to lead that charge with the industry's most ambitious — and
> potentially riskiest — effort yet to change the way cable subscribers watch
> TV. <-
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
>> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org]
>>  On Behalf Of George Allen
>> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 3:21 PM
>> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
>> Subject: Re: digital converter box -- surprising performance
>>
>> I just fired up dtv box #2, a channel master cm-7000 [~$80
>> before coupon, s-video out], on wabbit ears on the 2nd floor
>> of my house in Swampscott, facing the ocean, SSW.  Blue Hill
>> [I've got hazecams up there too <g>] is "in the way" of
>> Providence, but 22 miles away.  Again, for what this antenna
>> sees, goto www.hazecam.net/boston.html .
>>
>> With the wabbit ears just tossed behind the TV and no
>> fussing, this box pulled in a whole bunch of channels I'd
>> never seen before, including the 2 main Providence ones
>> [analog 10 and 12], perfectly.  I suppose this isn't that
>> surprising given the clear shot over the water from here. No
>> NH stations [that I recognized at least] tho.  There's a hill
>> right next to me to the North, and a few walls too.
>>    -- George
>> ____________________________________
>>
>> Kevin Wrote:
>> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
>> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:02:18 -0500
>> Subject: Re: digital converter box -- surprising performance
>> Just curious.  You people with rabbit ears in Greater Boston
>> how is the DTV signals out of Providence and New Hampshire doing?
>> The VHF signals of 10 and 12 traditionally had problems in
>> Boston because of Great Blue Hill.
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