If you want digital and the cable provider is not retransmitting it, you can just put up an antenna. Why should the cable company be expected to provide a service for free? Should they be required to broadcast it in both analog and digital and have to pay for it as well?
Leonard Caillouet 5535 SW 98th Terr Gainesville, FL 32608 352-367-1075 home 352-219-6216 cell lcaillo@xxxxxxxxxxxx (home/office email) lcaillo@xxxxxxxxxxx (mobile email) -------------------------------------------------- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 8:13 AM To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [opendtv] Re: My Jax clear QAM HD went away
At 9:59 PM -0400 4/27/10, Tom Barry wrote:I've previously been skeptical here that the cable companies would start encrypting the network channels. But I notice today I can no longer get ABC and Fox in HD that way. What I hadn't considered, and what they did, is that they might keep the SD versions for limited basic customers with cable ready TV's but encrypt the HD versions.Chalk up another victim of Retransmission consent. Now that the cable companies are paying the broadcaster for their content, they have both the incentive, and most likely contractual rights, to limit access to the HD version for customers paying those fees. The lifeline customers continue to get 4:3 SD, but you must pay for digital to get digital...Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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