[opendtv] Re: Will Digital Passthru Effect Digital Tier Subscription?

The FCC just recently established incentives for cable operators to give up
analog on the same date that OTA analog by FSTV sunsets.

 

John Willkie

 

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Asunto: [opendtv] Will Digital Passthru Effect Digital Tier Subscription?

 

The NCTA is saying that the only viable option for most cable 
operators will be to carry both an analog and the digital broadcast, 
effectively tying up nearly 12 MHz of capacity on their systems. The 
other option is to carry just the digital signals and let consumers 
decide if they want to bother with a STB to watch the broadcast 
signals. - Craig

I would like to see broadcast signals bumped to the digital tier and taken
off the analog tier for a selfish reason: our programming (EDU-TV and
UNLV-TV) was already taken off the analog tier on Cox Cable and put to the
digital tier.  While we probably don't have the type of programming that
would convince a large group of subscribers to go to the digital tier to
continue to receive it, perhaps if the major broadcasters were to go to the
digital tier only, they would help pull more people to the digital tier and,
thus, provide more potential customers to our programming.  And perhaps this
is true for other digital tier-only networks.  Of course, it sounds like
people are consuming broadcast programming much less these days (based on
recent discussion), so perhaps not.  So could broadcast channels being on
only the digital tier move everyone from analog to digital?  Will it effect
digital tier subscription to the point that the cable operators could remove
the analog?

Dan Grimes

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