Broadcast, cable cos fight over downconverting

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Bob Colby @ May 26th 2006 9:24PM

My take on both types of downconversion:

HD to Analog - I'm glad that the broadcasters are coming around on this one. Cablecos are going to need some kind of basic analog-cable package to ease the post-shutoff pain for analog customers, and I wouldn't want to be the marketing guy in charge of selling such a package if the broadcast channels WEREN'T included.

HD to DTV - I think broadcasters are being paranoid if they think that cable wouldn't carry their HD signal - that'd be business suicide! Beyond that, I've been trying to figure out the purpose of HD/DTV downconversion in the first place, and I have a guess (pure speculation here). My old bedroom set is hooked to an SD cable box, and you can get the audio (but no video) from the HD channels. So maybe HD/DTV downconversion is to give setups like that a taste of the HD channel universe. But who knows what they're actually thinking?

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