--- In [email protected], Dishnut-P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.cedmagazine.com/ced/2005/0605/06cc.htm
> 
> If you go to that site, you will see that CSPAN and CSPAN2 are
listed as 
> Clear. This means they are analog C-band transmissions that are not 
> scrambled. And of course, the "stars" of CSPAN programming are our 
> elected officials�Congressmen and Senators. So the FCC proposal will 
> deprive these "stars" of some portion of their audience.

They can go digital, CSPAN3 is already there. Lets just hope they make
CSPAN 1&2 FTA .

> 
> Maybe the FCC proposal will eliminate a significant interference
threat, 
> although I haven't heard any complaints lately. Maybe it will allow the 
> delivery of some new digital services that were precluded by the analog 
> video transmissions, but I doubt it. It seems to me that the FCC has 
> made a politically stupid proposal, although they have tried their best 
> to conceal it.

For C-band, there won't be anything, at least available to home
viewers, apart from tradional audio/video services already on analog,
as there is no incentive to include anything above those.




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