Submission + - FCC: analog TV lives until 2012 (Ars Technica) (arstechnica.com) 1
walterbays writes: ""The FCC voted 5-0 to require that cable operators must continue to make all local broadcasts available to their users, even those with analog televisions."
I don't understand how AT&T manages to deliver U-verse without any analog channels. Did they get it classified as not-cable and exempt from existing rules? Or as a result of this vote, will they suddenly have to drop 50 SD channels to make room for 5 NTSC channels?"
I don't understand how AT&T manages to deliver U-verse without any analog channels. Did they get it classified as not-cable and exempt from existing rules? Or as a result of this vote, will they suddenly have to drop 50 SD channels to make room for 5 NTSC channels?"
RTFA, Submitter (Score:2)
I don't understand how AT&T manages to deliver U-verse without any analog channels. Did they get it classified as not-cable and exempt from existing rules? Or as a result of this vote, will they suddenly have to drop 50 SD channels to make room for 5 NTSC channels?"
If you had read the article, submitter, you would have seen that providing a converter box to the subscriber that converts the digital signal to analog is sufficient to comply. (A "last-feet solution"?)
However, it does mean that most NTSC tuners will become useless for other than channels 2, 3, or 4, depending on which is output from the box (if it even includes RF-coax out).