[mythtv-users] a better tuner for SD

[Johnny Russ]

>
> why would the FCC be cracking down on companies selling analog cards?
> Last I checked it was only broadcast TV that was changing to digital?
> and its taken years for that to  even happen.  I doubt analog over cable
> is going away soon, FCC has told US cable operators they have to support
>  it til 2012.
>

They are cracking down on analog only tuners. You can still purchase newer
tuner cards that have both digital and analog tuners in them. It is
basically the same policy as with TVs, if it has a tuner it has to be able
to pick up the new digital signals. So they are not necessarily banning
analog tuners. They are banning tuners that don't receive digital. It makes
more sense with TVs where the average consumer doesn't know the difference,
but with PC tuner cards the consumer is generally much more informed.

I may be wrong about this but I don't believe that the cable operators are
required to carry analog channels. I believe the requirement is that if they
carry any analog channel then the must carry all of the OTA channels in
analog also. But if they go all digital then they don't have to carry the
OTA channels in analog. See: http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html#faq30
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