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Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 05/17/06 19:18
On 17 May 2006 06:15:35 -0700, "blackburst@aol.com"
<blackburst@aol.com> wrote:
>
>This is a general response to Steve and all the other posts in this
>thread.
>I work part time at a regional cable news network, and we are agonizing
>right now over how to make the switch to all digital, tapeless and HD.
>is coming. Over the air analog dies on February 18, 2009. In HD, the
>big networks will make the jump, followed by the lesser networks. Then
>HD TV prices will drop, and the cable companies will go all HD. Then
I disagree with the specific order tho : Telewest is our cableco in
the UK. They're showing all the signs of gong HD pretty soon, already
providing some services and HD enabled decoders for people who have
the playback equipment to take account of that.
In particular, telewest are already rolling out the HDTV recording
STB's to consumers so I'd say we're pretty much there, ready to roll.
Speaking to an engineer who replaced our STB a couple of months ago
(due to failure rather than HD upgrade) his impression was the HD
takeup would soar to conicide with the world cup football - all the
signs are this has happened.
Although some terrestrial services are looking at HD pretty-soon as
the switchover to digital TV starts over here, I'm pretty sure the
cable companies have far less encumberance in that they own the wires
and switches to get the content down at higher bitrates.
Thoughts ?
Cheers - Neil
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