Comment Re:I posted this at EmmyAdvancedMedia too (Score 1) 415
I forgot to mention...
I suppose some things are a bit different, but the cable company that I work for was one of the first in Canada (correct me if I'm wrong, Mountain Cablevision) to go 100% digital.
True, channels we pickup off-air may see "fuzziness" or come through poorly, but it's not like that's degradation within the cable system, that's straight from the off-air feed. Temperature inversion and Sun Outages (as far as satellite feeds) can cause a lot of the problems straight from the digital headend.
I think the consumers are highly mis-informed, and a lot of them just want "clear pictures and sound" and forget about all the technical reasons for why it is so difficult to get it to their homes during certain parts of the year.
Sure, if the cable plant sucks, and you're 2-10 amplifiers deep, your reception is going to be horrible, but that in itself is the only problem the cable companies should have to worry about.
I suppose some things are a bit different, but the cable company that I work for was one of the first in Canada (correct me if I'm wrong, Mountain Cablevision) to go 100% digital.
True, channels we pickup off-air may see "fuzziness" or come through poorly, but it's not like that's degradation within the cable system, that's straight from the off-air feed. Temperature inversion and Sun Outages (as far as satellite feeds) can cause a lot of the problems straight from the digital headend.
I think the consumers are highly mis-informed, and a lot of them just want "clear pictures and sound" and forget about all the technical reasons for why it is so difficult to get it to their homes during certain parts of the year.
Sure, if the cable plant sucks, and you're 2-10 amplifiers deep, your reception is going to be horrible, but that in itself is the only problem the cable companies should have to worry about.
