Posted by Rick Merrill on 11/28/05 22:39

David McCall wrote:
> "Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
> news:dmfei2$9ju$1@news01.intel.com...
>
>>A last attempt at competing with 500 channels on your satellite
>>dish or 200 on your cable.
>
> A point that I would like to bring up is that the mandate
> to switch broadcast to digital is just about over the air
> broadcasting. If you use rabbit ears or an external TV
> antenna (not a dish) the you will need a new digital ready
> TV or a converter to convert the over the air signal to
> analog for your older TV.
>
> If you have cable or satellite, then it will be up to them to
> provide an analog out (as they do now), as well as a
> digital connection for your digital TVs. The broadcast
> mandate shouldn't have much effect on non broadcast
> signals, except that most new TVs will be equipped for
> digital reception, and eventually they will stop having
> analog inputs. I think the analog tuners will go away
> pretty quick, but the analog inputs will likely stay for a while.
>
> Some of you probably remember when FM radio came
> along there was a mandate in the US that all new radios
> must have both FM and AM reception. There were
> converters and tuners that allowed people to listen to
> FM stations on their AM radios, or on their "Hi-Fi" systems.
>
> Similarly, when UHF came along, there was a mandate to
> put UHF tuners in all new TVs, but there were set top boxes
> that converted the UHF signal to something you could receive
> on your older VHF only TV.
>
> They won't leave you without a way to receive a TV signal,
> but you may need some sort of set-top box to get it.
...

OR Cable TV Service and a 'cable ready' analog TV;-)

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