On Tuesday 08 February 2005 22:58, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 07 February 2005 14:49, Andy Long wrote: > > NOT getting analog cable if you have digital seems odd, unless they > > have installed some kind of filter on your line. > > Not really, the reason for going digital is the dramatic increase in > the number of stations carried. Many cable plants are switching > to Digital only, as each analog channel takes something like 5 to 8 > digital channels worth of bandwidth.
Yes, but typically there are 3 scenarios in the wild: (1) cable provider goes digital-only -- there are no analog channels on the cable. I'd guess this is rather rare (2) cable provider provides analog + digital. Channels < 125 are analog, others are digital. Analog channels do not have digital equivalents (except for the case of a local station that broadcasts 2 channels, for standard and HD). (3) same as (2), except all analog channels are mirrored on the digital side. In this case, the provider may or may not choose to put a filter on the analog channels for digital customers. Based on anecdotal evidence on this list in the past, it seems that either [2] or [3] (with no filter) is the most common. So yes, in that case it would "seem odd" not to get analog channels in addition to the digital ones. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
