With the US DTV transition just months away and competition from all-digital services like Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's U-verse increasing, one change that's finally coming to the cable industry is the disappearance of analog signals. Although the FCC is requiring cable companies to support analog customers until 2012, that mandate still allows them to do so through the use of digital converter ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote:By switching to pure digital signals cable companies can do a better job of long range transmission since they can be repeated losslessly. Analog signals, on the other hand, must be amplified for transmission across longer distances. The more times a signal is amplified the lower the quality becomes.
this should read, By switching to pure digital We have more ways to screw the consumer. like are state of the art broadcast flags, sometimes though will just disconnect your Cable when we find you using a better DNS Server like OpenDNS.
Quote:By going all-digital, we can provide the consumers of the great Empire City a superior alternative to the incumbent cable and phone products.
this should Read, by Going all digital, we can provide the best F the consumer experience in the great Empire City, but because were so dame stupid we just said we could have a better Service than cable and phone providers.
