MegaZone wrote (snipped some):
> Nearly all over-the-air (OTA) broadcast television is now digital > (ATSC) and nearly all analog over-the-air TV (NTSC) is now gone. > > For all intents and purposes you could really say *all* OTA TV is now > digital, but there are a small number of stations in the US with > waivers to keep operating analog for now, low power stations, etc. > But those are pretty rare - still, I wanted to be accurate. And we appreciate it! <insert smilie face if needed) > Cable networks are a mix. RCN has gone 100% digital across their > network, if I'm remembering correctly. Comcast has gone 100% digital > in a handful of their markets. But most cable companies are still > hybrid - analog and digital. As a rule of thumb cable channels 1-99 > are analog, 100+ are digital. Cable MSOs are generally migrating more > and more content to the digital tier to free bandwidth and increase > the total number of channels. In San Jose, Comcast customers get channels 2 through 34 in analog format. Comcast wanted to upgrade channels 35 through 82 to digital, to join all the rest of the higher channels in digital format, so they went so far as to send several mailings to those "Expanded Basic" customers offering to send them one cable box and two digital transport adapters for free, and they said we would not be able to see those digital channels after June 12th. It sounded like a lie and I believe it was a lie, because I can still get CNN (for example) on cable 56 on a television set with no box or adapter, but I have to put up with the system of gluing infrared blasters to their little plastic box. Now that I've said it, I'm over it. I guess one simply cannot stand in the way of progress. Presumably the day will come when they actually do switch everything above 34 to digital. Again, thanks for the explanation. Dave S. -- dave6592 [at] accesscom [dot] com - http://www.accesscom.com/~dave6592 Dave Schultheis, San José, Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County, CA, USA
