Cant get converter to work on Chromacolor?

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by MelodyMaster

Not in Canada, ALL channels, including digital versions of the basic 2-13, are scrambled. The only unscrambled C-Qam channels on most providers here are, ironically, Movies on demand.

I meant all cable systems in the US. Should have mentioned that in my post.

I am actually surprised that Canada's communications authority has decided to scramble nearly everything on the country's cable systems, including local channels 2-13. Why didn't they leave the local channels unscrambled, so people without cable or converter boxes can still see them? Here in the US, we still have a basic level of cable service that currently provides unscrambled local channels; however, I recently read online (at elgato.com) that analog cable service in the US will be phased out soon, meaning that all cable systems in this country will be 100 percent digital -- no exceptions. I am not sure, however, what the actual cutoff date will be. The Canadian government must remember that there are people in Canada who cannot afford cable or even converter boxes, the same situation as we had here in the US before the DTV transition and immediately afterward. There are people in the US who gave up watching TV altogether, starting the day of the DTV transition; this could and probably will happen in Canada as well, if programming, including local channels, are all but completely scrambled. What kind of equipment will be required to watch cable TV in Canada once the DTV transition is underway there? Will flat panel TVs, with their digital ATSC tuners (as are replacing analog NTSC TVs in the US), work on Canadian cable systems without a cable box?