[opendtv] Re: NAB, MSTV applaud FCC must-carry proposal for DTV transition

Dale Kelly wrote:


Looks as if Cable will use this issue to again challenge Must Carry
in the courts - no surprise.


http://ct.pbinews.com/rd/cts?d=244-13186-50-28505-78895-689112-0-0-0-1

The NCTA is being so disingenuous.
My position all along has been that the broadcasters should only insist on must-carry of the digital signal. Let the cable companies decide whether to offer an analog tier or D/A STBs for their analog subscribers. And trust that the analog set subscribers will take matters into their own hands if the cable companies don't provide them a usable signal one way or the other.
It also wouldn't have hurt the cable companies to support, rather than discourage, the use of CableCards. That would have allowed consumers to transition more quickly, without having to rely on new STBs from cable companies, thereby alleviating the problem of legacy analog users. It would also have satisfied the many analog cable customers who refuse to go digital mostly because they hate to have to use the cable company STBs.
If cable companies thought it was to their advantage to slow down the transition of their subscribers, well then, eventually this was bound to happen. It was painfully obvious and predictable. How can anyone feel they are being wronged? 

Bert

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