Gibson would be a good person to comment on this. AFAIK, yes. Comcast was planning on taking away the analog stuff several years ago. They ran an ad campaign to have people with analog sets to buy (or be furnished) converter boxes (they used to be available at K Mart, Walmart and lots of other places). There was a government sponsored program to fund some of that cost (don't remember how much). If you can still find the converters (without renting them from Comcast) I think some of those were in the $50 dollar range or so. I think Comcast will still rent out the converter boxes, but I don't know how much they charge.
Dave On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 11:29 -0600, Chris McQuistion wrote: > I've received some letters from Comcast lately, explaining that they > were no longer going to be broadcasting any analog channels over the > wire and clients would need cable boxes (DTA's) to tune in channels. > I (foolishly) believed that they were going to leave the digital > ClearQAM channels alone and HDTV's with tuners would still be able to > tune in the local HD channels (local ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc). > > > It appears I was wrong about that and Comcast has taken away the > ClearQAM channels and is no longer broadcasting those any more. > > > Anyone know what to do about this? Is Comcast within their legal > right to do this? Whether they are or not, is there anything that can > we can do about it? I have a home DVR system that records off > ClearQAM, as do many of my friends and family. None of those are > working, now. > > > Chris > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
