[BC] An HD Tuner for $110

[DANA PUOPOLO]

Yes, but the cable companies will all be converting HDTV to NTSC for their
basic customers. There are simply too many out there to lose that revenue
stream.

-D



------ Original Message ------
Received: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:41:57 PM PST
From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] An HD Tuner for $110

I forgot to add that if you only have analog service, you will never get HDTV.

The cable companies remodulate it from 8VSB to 256 QAM. You need  a cable
ready 
tuner with a cable card (you pay the cable company extra for that)    OR you 
just get their box.

R

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/23/2005 9:28:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> Robertm at broadcast.net writes:
> 
> 
>>no Willie
>> 
>> Most people do not need a tuner for HDTV. The cable company does it all 
> 
> for 
> 
>>you,
> 
> 
> That's *if* they have you shelling-out for one of their boxes. We use our 
> "Cable-Ready" TV & VCR to get all of the analog channels. (About 80-90 of
them.) 
> We've seen what they offer on the digital tiers, and there's nothing there 
> that we want, that we don't already have in analog. When analog "goes away",
then 
> we'll be forced to get a box. Until then, we save about $20 a month. It's 
> money in the bank... literally.
> 
> Willie...
> 
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