Metrocast/Wmur

[patman]

Originally Posted by BroadHopper

The FCC claimed at the time the conversion was suppose to be 'painless' to consumers. Another slap across our face on support of cable companies. =(

It's not the FCC behind the move...it's the entertainment industry. If you think digital conversion was bad...wait until SOPA gets passed.

I've always felt that the prime motivator for the shift to digital TV was not to improve content (quality, etc), it was so that the provider (entertainment industry) could control the signal end-to-end. You can't just connect an HDMI cable to a recorder...because that isn't an 'authorized' viewer of the signal. I think analog went away because it couldn't be controlled in that way.