[opendtv] Re: FCC rules for cable after the OTA TV digital transition
- From: "johnwillkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:39:05 -0700
Only fools debate using FCC press releases. Not a word they issue counts
for anything until the text of the decision is released. All FCC public
notices carry indica to that effect.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Manfredi, Albert E
Enviado el: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:41 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: FCC rules for cable after the OTA TV digital
transition
John Shutt wrote:
> I didn't see anywhere in the admittedly brief press release
> where the FCC mandated digital carriage of anything.
Ah yes, another stretching of logic, like the time years ago when you
said that the FCC was not mandating any sort of OTA broadcasting after
analog shutoff. Remember that? Clearly, that wasn't the case then, nor
is it now.
The "no material degradation" means that any HD broadcast must be
transmitted as HD on cable, which is impossible in a 6 MHz analog cable
channel. Therefore, the FCC is mandating that the digital OTA channel be
retransmitted as digital over cable (main program only).
Conceivably, you might argue that stations that only transmit in digital
SD might meet the "no material degradation" by being repeated as
analog-only on cable. But I think that is really trying hard to twist
the meaning of this order.
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