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

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 11 September 2009 14:14:27 Paul Gallaway wrote:
> > My local cable company is already telling customers that "The FCC is
> > forcing us to go digital", which is of course totally false, but not
> > completely unbelievable, given the mandated changes to OTA.
>
> If it's digital it must be good, right! They wouldn't ever over
> compress the video would they?!?

Of course not.

The local cable outfit is also running ads accusing the satellite companies 
of "aggressively processing" their signals, the implication being that the 
cable company doesn't, I guess.

Anything "aggressive" is obviously bad, right?

As to whether Canadian cable companies will have to provide a free simple box 
for basic channels, I don't know, but they will have to deal with the 
negative PR aspects if they try to make everyone pay a rental fee.

In general I think the Canadian outfits are more customer friendly thanthwe US 
ones, at least that's what it seemed like to me when I used to live in 
Ontario (Peterborough). We were allowed to purchase our own converters for 
use on that system (though this was back in the mid-70s).

On the bright side, the cheap basic boxes did lead to a metter solution for 
scanning digital channels.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org