Re: QAM HD tuners and digital cable

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I don't think their switch-over was necessarily tied to FCC's digital
broadcast schedule, I think it was more about wanting all of their customer
using the addressable STB's (which allows them to sell DVR's, extended
channels service, pay-per-view, etc.). As I said, maybe they just "want"
everybody to pay for their boxes and remotes; they called one time last year
(trying to sell extended service or internet or something) and the
salesperson told my wife "well, everyone is going to have be digital by next
Spring", which was a few months ago. A friend who just got a new HD TV and
needed to change his service from analog to HD was told a similar line, but
he was told "by sometime next year". In any event, we've never gotten an
official letter telling us any of this, so who knows?
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida


"JW" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The THEY down there in Florida are saying that if anyone plans to use an
Antenna to receive TV after February 2009 then they must have a Digital
STB since no anlaog transmissions will be allowed anymore from a
transmitter in the US.
Since cable companies are not using public airspace to transmit theiir
analog channels they are not subject to this rule. They would be shooting
themselves in the foot if they did not allow their existing cable
customers to still recieve their analog channels just like they do today
because that would force them away from cable.
In addition to TW in NYC my local Cox Cable company has started testing
dual broadcasting of analog channels over digital. Cox digital channel
802 was the same as analog 2 and Cox digital 807 was the same as anlaog 7
during the tests which AFAIK is the way they plan to implement service for
those with only digital tuners without eliminating their current analog
cable customers.
"Jaime" <jaimelobo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That would be nice, but what they keep mentioning down here in FL is that
everyone will have to have a digital box or digital TV by 19xx (they keep
changing their mind. Might just be a marketing ploy to get everyone on
digital.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"JW" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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AFAIK just becasue TW will make all channels availale via digital does
not mean that they will drop the Analog service of them also since there
is no FCC requirement for them to that. I believe TW in New York City
now offers all of their analog channels also in digital with different
channel numbers of course.
"Jaime" <jaimelobo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have analog cable, no STB and I love it. Right now, I just split the
coax and have one into the MCE box and one directly into the TV. No IR
blaster hassles, no delay when surfing channels.

I dread the day (that T/W keeps threatening) when everyone in our
system has to change to digital and I have to put an ugly box on my TV!
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"ShamusFu" <ShamusFu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for the answer, but that stinks.

I am a big MS fan, but how they did not see this coming is beyond me.
Especially since there have been QAM cards out there for some time.

Who on earth does not have digital cable/uses and OTA antenna??

"JW" wrote:

MS has announced and confirmed that the you will be able to purchase
a Vista
system with cable card support from several of the OEMs. I believe
that
there are 2 HDTV cards available today that have QAM support( one is
the
Fusion 5) which allow you watch the unencrypted digital channels from
your
cable company which are nomally the same channels as your local OTA
digital
stations which you can also get with a HDTV card. However, the QAM
support
is not available in MCE you have to use it in normal XP.

"ShamusFu" <ShamusFu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What is the deal with QAM and digital cable tuner cards? I built a
MCE
about
a year ago, and since decommisioned it from my giant HDTV since it
does
not
decode digital cable. I replaced it with Time Warner dual-tuner
DVR/HD
box
and my life has never been better.

A year later I am reading that MCE *STILL* does not support digital
cable,
and cannot even get a straight answer on whether Vista will.

I want VERY BADLY to use an MCE as my main hub of the home theatre,
but
this
lack of digital cable support is a show stopper.

Any solutions out there???

Thanks.













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