Comments on: FCC Analog Signal Ruling Doesn’t Impact IPTV http://newteevee.com/2007/09/14/fcc-analog-signal-ruling-doesnt-impact-iptv/ NewTeeVee Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:57:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: trademark registration http://newteevee.com/2007/09/14/fcc-analog-signal-ruling-doesnt-impact-iptv/#comment-200615 trademark registration Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:42:25 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2007/09/14/fcc-analog-signal-ruling-doesnt-impact-iptv/#comment-200615 <p>Personally, I feel that the people that really care about watching TV in the first place already have digital-capable televisions or HDTVs that can handle digital signals. It is a good idea for public broadcasts to still be shown in analog because 40 million americans is A LOT.</p> Personally, I feel that the people that really care about watching TV in the first place already have digital-capable televisions or HDTVs that can handle digital signals. It is a good idea for public broadcasts to still be shown in analog because 40 million americans is A LOT.

]]> By: Jackson West http://newteevee.com/2007/09/14/fcc-analog-signal-ruling-doesnt-impact-iptv/#comment-110267 Jackson West Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:08:50 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2007/09/14/fcc-analog-signal-ruling-doesnt-impact-iptv/#comment-110267 <p>Didn't know about Verizon's analog service -- doesn't change the fact that as far as I know they're past the must-carry provisions.</p> <p>Good point about sending the five analog stations digital, and then just decoding them to analog. But wouldn't that still require cablecos to provide new hardware for legacy users?</p> Didn’t know about Verizon’s analog service — doesn’t change the fact that as far as I know they’re past the must-carry provisions.

Good point about sending the five analog stations digital, and then just decoding them to analog. But wouldn’t that still require cablecos to provide new hardware for legacy users?

]]> By: Jon Smirl http://newteevee.com/2007/09/14/fcc-analog-signal-ruling-doesnt-impact-iptv/#comment-108542 Jon Smirl Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:12:48 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2007/09/14/fcc-analog-signal-ruling-doesnt-impact-iptv/#comment-108542 <p>This is not correct. FIOS does have an analog component. About 40 channels of analog are sent on the fiber in their own wavelength. The OTN puts these analog channels directly onto your home coax so that you can watch broadcast stations without need a converter box.</p> <p>Cable companies could easily support this solution too since it is only five channels. They just need to provide a box that would generate the analog signal on the home coax.</p> <p>The real crime is encrypting all of the basic cable channels so that digital TVs with QAM tuners still need a STB to receive a signal. This also stops third party DVRs. A signal I am paying to receive should not be encrypted inside my house.</p> <p>SDV - switched digital video is the answer to all of this. But the Cablecard law which was made before SDV existed causing a giant mess by locking a specific transmission format into law.</p> This is not correct. FIOS does have an analog component. About 40 channels of analog are sent on the fiber in their own wavelength. The OTN puts these analog channels directly onto your home coax so that you can watch broadcast stations without need a converter box.

Cable companies could easily support this solution too since it is only five channels. They just need to provide a box that would generate the analog signal on the home coax.

The real crime is encrypting all of the basic cable channels so that digital TVs with QAM tuners still need a STB to receive a signal. This also stops third party DVRs. A signal I am paying to receive should not be encrypted inside my house.

SDV – switched digital video is the answer to all of this. But the Cablecard law which was made before SDV existed causing a giant mess by locking a specific transmission format into law.

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