[mythtv-users] Digital Cable newbie questions

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Apr 11 16:24:07 UTC 2007


On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Matt wrote:

>>
>
> FYI - the Cable companies are under no obligation to push all their
> content out digitally.  The mandate is for any public broadcast
> OVER-THE-AIR (OTA) to stop broadcasting analog by that date.  After
> that date, if the cable companies want to continue to send an analog
> signal, they are under no mandate by the FCC to stop.
>

Thank you for pointing that fact out. My local cable company is  
telling everyone that "The FCC is making us do this", which is  
totally untrue, but most customers are swallowing it.

Brian Wood
beww at beww.org





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