[opendtv] Re: News: Cable operators find it tough to swallow HDTV
- From: "John McClenny" <jamcclenny@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:29:45 -0500
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On 6/6/06, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "The other leading remedy would hobble new HDTV sets designed with a
> slot to work with a slick, credit card-size CableCard instead of a box."
>
> Hobble? That's entirely up to cable operators. If they switch to digital
> 256-QAM, and shut off analog, there will be more room even with HDTV
> than there is now with analog.
>
> No one is forcing cable operators to transmit their digital programming
> 100 percent encrypted. That's entirely up to them. No need to force all
> cable customers to use CableCard or a company-provided digital STB. For
> example, the basic or extended basic tiers could be made available
> unencrypted, like it is now with NTSC in most(?) cases. That would cover
> about 2/3 of all cable customers. Quite a savings for the operators, if
> they don't have to provide all those STBs.
>
Actually, almost all new content deals for digital, even for retranmission
of OTA signals, now require encryption. Stupid, but true.
But most content deals are jaw-droppingly silly. If the content providers
could keep people from actually viewing their content, but still get paid,
they would be happy.
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