<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">why would the FCC be cracking down on companies selling analog cards?<br>
Last I checked it was only broadcast TV that was changing to digital?<br>
and its taken years for that to even happen. I doubt analog over cable<br>
is going away soon, FCC has told US cable operators they have to support<br>
it til 2012.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>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: <a href="http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html#faq30">http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html#faq30</a><br>
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