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Originally Posted by 3Guncolor
I find it interesting that somebody would tell you the analog conversion happens in a box on your roof. Well anyway I guess that's possible. Most cable systems send out the analog from the headend just like it was years ago. For the analog version just look at this way we have very good converters that do the same basic conversion as the $49 converters in the stores. Plus don't count on all the television stations having a direct link to the headend. We still pick a lot of them up with an antenna.
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That wasn't just "somebody" who told me that--it was a person who works for Time Warner Cable. As for how the cable company gets local station signals, again, I was told by an installer (who would know about these things, as he does cable installations and repairs all day long for a living) that TW does not use antennas any longer to pick up local stations; rather, the cable operator gets the direct feeds from every station in Cleveland. I don't know what cable company you work for or whatever but that's the way they do it in my area. Time Warner converted its northeastern Ohio/northwestern Pennsylvania cable systems to full digital at least a year ago, and as such has no use for OTA antennas.
I am confused as well as to the FCC's plan to do away with analog cable channels in 2012--or whatever. They shouldn't have to do anything, as the TV stations cannot transmit analog anymore as of 06.12. However, that's beside the point. My question is this: Without an RF signal to carry the audio and video on, how on earth am I still getting my local stations over coax cable? I was told by the installer who downgraded my service to basic that TW uses direct digital feeds from the television stations and that they are converted to NTSC for viewers like myself, with older analog sets. That conversion is being done, if not by converters on rooftops,
somewhere between the headend and the subscribers' sets; I have every reason to believe him, as I know next to nothing about how today's cable television systems work. All I really know about my present cable hookup is that it provides a much,
much sharper and clearer picture on my old analog RCA TV than I can ever remember getting when this cable system was all analog, and I've had service from this cable company since the early 1980s when it was called Continental Cablevision.