BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to dagon01
Re: [CATV] Will all the channels be HD come Feb. 2009?
said by dagon01  : Does anyone know? Or will Charter stay years behind with their 8 HD channels. the 2009 transition has NOTHING to do with either cable or HD. Jesus Christ people.
In Feb 2009 OTA as in Over The Air singals( ie you get TV froma rooftop or rabbit era antennas ) are going from analog to digital. They are not going to be in HD and you don't need a HDTV to view them. This transition does not have any effect on cable or satelite customers. Whether Charter goes all digital and/or adds more HD channels is decision Charter will make when it's best for them to do and has nothing to do with what's going to happen in Feb 2009. |
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useless
join:2006-07-16
| said by BF69 : Whether Charter goes all digital and/or adds more HD channels is decision Charter will make when it's best for them to do and has nothing to do with what's going to happen in Feb 2009. Correct, adding that charter (may not/does not have to) do the same thing in every market, same with other Cable operators.
Will save much bandwidth going all digital though. |
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idreaminblu
@charter.com
| reply to BF69
You got a bad attitude.
Anyway I dropped the HD channels that were costing me $8 a month and only about 4 were lost. I still have about 9 HD channels. Only thing I lost was History, A&E, Discovery Theater, Universal and some music channel. Not worth $8 in my opinion.
I mostly watch Blu rays anyway. |
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Indravar
@charter.com | reply to BF69
Except the OTA channels will be and already are in HD for the most part. |
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budone
join:2002-09-07
Traverse City, MI
 ·Charter Pipeline
| said by Indravar :
Except the OTA channels will be and already are in HD for the most part.
This is simply not true. Many MANY shows are not broadcast in HD and they will NOT miraculously be shown in HD in February. They WILL BE broadcast digitally.
Such as syndicated shows and many local stations news broadcast. Reality shows.
HD=High Definition is an apple to orange comparison to Digital Broadcast Signal. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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July 12th, @10:24AM
| reply to idreaminblu
said by idreaminblu :
You got a bad attitude. No I don't I get tired of reading the same stupid questions. How fricken complicated to know that the 2009 digital transition
A) does NOT have a thing to do with cable
B) does NOT have a thing to do with HD.
Ok I give a pass to the 99.999% did not know about this transition as far back as when I did, BUT at this late stage of the game with just 7 months to go. Come on now. If people don't know what's going on by now, perhaps watching TV is to complicated for them anyways. |
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Margolis
Premium
join:2003-11-24
Saint Louis, MO
·Charter Pipeline
| said by BF69 :said by idreaminblu :
You got a bad attitude. No I don't I get tired of reading the same stupid questions. How fricken complicated to know that the 2009 digital transition A) does NOT have a thing to do with cable B) does NOT have a thing to do with HD. Ok I give a pass to the 99.999% did not know about this transition as far back as when I did, BUT at this late stage of the game with just 7 months to go. Come on now. If people don't know what's going on by now, perhaps watching TV is to complicated for them anyways. actually you do have a bad attitude. That is why the forum is here, for people to ask questions and get answers if they do not know. Not so they can chewed out by someone who thinks that they are smarter than everyone else.
Wondering if the cable stations are going to convert the signal back to analog is a valid question. Some of us know the answers, but I don't expect every last soul to know.
How hard is it to just answer the question without being a smartass? I've only seen the charter commercial a couple of times in the last year that said cable customers need not worry, I could very easily believe that a lot of people have never seen it and would wonder. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by Margolis :actually you do have a bad attitude. That is why the forum is here, for people to ask questions and get answers if they do not know. No I don't have a bad attitude. This is NOT the first time someone has brought this up. There a little feature this site has called SEARCH. You may not care that this forum might have 10 threads of this everyday as the deadline gets closer. Some of us might.
Not so they can chewed out by someone who thinks that they are smarter than everyone else. »www.dtv2009.gov/
would answer ALL questions. Everyone should known this url by now. ZERO excuses.
Wondering if the cable stations are going to convert the signal back to analog is a valid question. Some of us know the answers, but I don't expect every last soul to know. That's not what was asked. He asked if Charter was switching to all HD in Feb 2009 because of the digital transition. Which I am sorry, is in fact a stupid question for the reasons I stated.
How hard is it to just answer the question without being a smartass? I've only seen the charter commercial a couple of times in the last year that said cable customers need not worry, I could very easily believe that a lot of people have never seen it and would wonder. There are all sorts of commericals out there and you don't need to see a Charter one. I see about 10 commericals a day on this topic and I don't even watch TV hardly. |
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