There won't be any more digital locals than there is analog locals right now. My guess is that they will be replaced. They aren't under a mandatory carry law after the analog is switched off. They can just carry HD if they wish. The cable companies, on the other hand are required to carry a signal which analog subscribers can receive until 2012. They can do this by any means they want though. even giving those subscribers a digital box at no extra charge. My guess is that it will be cheaper for them to just continue the analog signal for local channels only on their systems.
Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "F G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:22 AM Subject: Re: [TVRO] Re: DirecTV To Raise Rates > IF DTV and DishTV have so many locals , how are they going to carry all > the hD locals next year? Don''t they need much more > bandwidth? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1/21/2008 04:46, you wrote: >>You are right there is a big delay for locals on the small dish. This is >>partly due to how they transmit that signal. Those local channels, at >>least >>on DNet are sent from a point where there is a tower near the channels >>they >>want to receive, usually at one of the local channel's studios, and this >>is >>then sent by fiber telephone lines to Wyoming uplink station. I think the >>telephone fiber probably leads to some of the delay in these signals. >>Seems >>to me the local channels have the worse delays. At least from what I have >>noticed. I believe the delay would be lessened some if they picked up the >>locals thru satellite rather than fiber feeds. But, I realize many of the >>smaller markets don't have sat uplinks to recieve. > > The delay may be simply the digitization. I receive analog OTA directly; > my brother (about 15 miles away) watches the same OTA stations via > cable. He receives the same station I'm watching delayed about 7 seconds. > > Bob > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > MPEG2 Charts and Info: http://www.global-cm.net/mpeg2central.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.8/1236 - Release Date: 1/21/2008 > 8:23 PM > >
