[LINK] US digital tv switch going ahead -- sort of

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:34 AM 12/02/2009, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>What is broadcast over the cable systems in the USA? Digital or analogue?
><http://www.cablelabs.com/news/newsletter/SPECS/NovDec_2005/story6.html>
>mentions that the US is a 40/60 mix of analogue and digital in 2005.
>
>How about here? Digital on cable, IIRC.
>The same page mentions 20% of Australia's 7.5 TV household subscribe to
>cable, raising the number to 25% if satellite is included.

unless things have changed, cable receivers weren't always stbs in 
the US. I seem to recall that I could plug the coax directly into my 
vcr or tv when they were all analog. I *think* here the stbs from the 
pay tv companies are different and allow only connections via those 
boxes, so the control is much tighter. Therefore the US conversion 
would be different, even on the cable connections in terms of the receivers.

FreeView a product? puh-leese!!!

As for outdoor, weather, etc. depends where you live in the US, of 
course. Florida and California are pretty much not in the same 3 
month 'lock up', not 5. In fact, I'd say 3 months is the longest in 
most places because people just dress to address the temperature 
differences. Heck, even when the snow was the deepest at my place, I 
was out in it riding horses, building snow men, shovelling driveways, 
ice skating, sledding, etc etc. Winter was a great time for outdoor 
stuff, even in flat and boring Indiana. :-)

Jan



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