On Aug 21, 2:42 pm, Puddin' Man wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:16:46 -0000, wrote:
On Aug 20, 5:19 pm, Puddin' Man wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:59:33 -0000, wrote:

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If you have cable, the improvement will cost you zippo. The cable box
already supplies NTSC, S Video, Component, whatever you're using.
That isn't going to change.

'Scuse me, but how in the hull do *you* know what Comcast, TW,
Charter, etc are going to do in the coming years? Some doubt they
know they-own-selves.

Look, first, it's not years away, ATSC is already up and running.
HDTV programming is available right now through OTA, cable, and Sat.
It coexists with std def right now. You can watch much of prime time
in HD or std right now via cable. All those cable companies now
deliver a signal that works with your NTSC TV. And the signal from
most cable companies is already digital to the set top box, regardless
of whether the output is NTSC or HD. In Feb 2009, the only thing
that happens is NTSC OTA gets turned off.

Sounds like a sales pitch to me. Kinda like doin' the Funky Chicken
to dance around the stated Q ("how in the hull do *you* know ...")
which you cannot answer.


Not a sales pitch. I don't care what you choose to do or watch. Just
pointing out that despite your efforts to spread FUD, there isn't some
big unknown gotcha out there for cable customers.


If you don't believe me, call your cable company and ask or do a bit
of research on the web.

Sho'ly, sho'ly. The cable co. is famous for taking great pains
to precisely define the technologies that they are cramming down
their customer's throats. :-)





And, no, I'll not be "researching" any sales pitches in the web.


Yeah, better to stay ignorant, and cast FUD around instead of making a
simple phone call or looking on the web for info pertaining to your
own cable company.







Several years ago I could get premium (HBO, etc) channels on my NTSC
tuners. Not no' mo': gotta have a (Charter) Digital-Garbage Box (and
pay rent on it).

I assure you that you can get it right now.

Premium cable channels with only an NTSC tuner (no set-top box)?

Just call up and pay for
it instead of stealing it.

"Steal Yo Mama! And Granma too!!" :-)

I pay for what I get and I get what I pay for. And I'm not buying
the super-hyped garbage that you are selling.


Again, not selling anything here.


Last I looked, there were incentives for cable vendors to further
convert to "digital". Not directly connected to the 2009 ATSC
changeover.

That's right, the incentives are to cram more channels down that
pipe. It's been going on, it works, so why should we expect it's
gonna disappear, just because broadcasters shutdown the NTSC
transmitters?

He thinks he's "The Oracle On The Mound" and can foresee all
eventualities. Doesn't even need to address specific issues
(per the above).

More FUD about "eventualites". Like the cable companies can't figure
out how the turnoff of NTSC broadcasting is going to impact them and
how they will accomodate it? And what specific issue would that be
that I haven't adressed?



I think he's a troll or a spammer or both.

P

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