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

[Michelle Dupuis]

I doubt it's CRTC mandated (certainly not for cable since they don't own the
spectrum)...it's more a  $ decision by rogers. 

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

On Thursday 10 September 2009 18:35:45 Christian Szpilfogel wrote:
> Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> > I've heard the Rogers will be killing off analog cable in Ontario
> > (Canada) soon - whenever soon is.  This will relegate my myth box to 
> > little more than an external digital VCR.
> >
> > Anyone know when this is coming?  I know you can't but analog only 
> > packages anymore (must have a digital tuner)...
>
> It 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.

So is the CRTC mandating digital transmission of all CATV signals? Or just
the OTA ones, as in the US?

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Brian Wood
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