[mythtv-users] OT: When is Rogers killing analog cable

[Christian Szpilfogel]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Thursday 10 September 2009 18:35:45 Christian Szpilfogel wrote:
>   
>> Michelle Dupuis wrote:
>>     
>>> I've heard the Rogers will be killing off analog cable in Ontario
>>> (Canada) soon - whenever soon is.  This will relegate my myth box to
>>> little more than an external digital VCR.
>>>
>>> Anyone know when this is coming?  I know you can't but analog only
>>> packages anymore (must have a digital tuner)...
>>>       
>> It is not Rogers per se; it is the CRTC. Analogue broadcast ends Aug 31,
>> 2011. You can acquire a digital box reasonably cheaply these days which
>> will have s-video outputs. I use this today with a PVR-500 and I use
>> firewire to do my channel changing on the digital box.
>>     
>
> So is the CRTC mandating digital transmission of all CATV signals? Or just the 
> OTA ones, as in the US?
>
>   
As far as I know just OTA but from what I recall there is a relationship 
between what the cable co must carry as basic analogue service vs what 
is available OTA. So though CRTC may not directly mandate Cable co's 
there may be an implied effect. All fuzzy memory and I could be wrong.