DTV and the Broadband Gap

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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:47:34 GMT K. B. <hotmail.com@lis2lis2> wrote:

| <http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/050721digitaltv/>

Are cable operators intending to carry DTV stations only in an analog form?
It would seem to me that once the date of mandatory analog cutoff is reached,
that cable operators should be required to carry the entire data bit stream
of each must-carry station, in a digital modulation, unless the station gives
the cable operators an analog waiver. If the cable operators want to change
it from 8-VSB to something else that customers can receive with their new
DTV receivers, I wouldn't have a problem with that (but the receivers sold
as "cable ready" must have the capability so it can work without any need
for a separate converter box).

Maybe the FCC can supplement the program of providing converter boxes for
OTA DTV to low income people with money from the commercial two-way users
that look to gain spectrum in the 700 MHz area.

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