[BC] An HD Tuner for $110

[Robert Meuser]

No

Congress just passed a law that prevents them from down converting.

R


DANA PUOPOLO wrote:

>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.
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>Received: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:41:57 PM PST
>From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
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>Subject: Re: [BC] An HD Tuner for $110
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>I forgot to add that if you only have analog service, you will never get HDTV.
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>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.
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>R
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>WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
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>>In a message dated 12/23/2005 9:28:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>>Robertm at broadcast.net writes:
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>>>no Willie
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>>>Most people do not need a tuner for HDTV. The cable company does it all 
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>>for 
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>>>you,
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>>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
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>them.) 
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>>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",
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>then 
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>>we'll be forced to get a box. Until then, we save about $20 a month. It's 
>>money in the bank... literally.
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>>Willie...
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