[mythtv-users] OT: When is Rogers killing analog cable

[Christian Szpilfogel]

Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> I doubt it's CRTC mandated (certainly not for cable since they don't own the
> spectrum)...it's more a  $ decision by rogers. 
>
>   
>> t is not Rogers per se; it is the CRTC. Analogue broadcast ends Aug 
>> 31, 2011. You can acquire a digital box reasonably cheaply these days 
>> which will have s-video outputs. I use this today with a PVR-500 and I 
>> use firewire to do my channel changing on the digital box.
>>     
Well actually the CRTC is mandating OTA analogue just as in the US.

You can also see this FAQ at: 
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02336.html

As I recall Cable providers have to provide certain basic analogue 
channels in their basic service but I don't believe they have to carry 
them in anlogue form. That is they can carry them digitally and then 
convert to analogue at a set top box. I haven't read these regs so I am 
not truly certain of what they can and can not do.

I don't believe it is so much a money issue as much as it is a recovery 
of spectrum to add digital channels.

This is as much as I know on the subject.