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[DrP]

The US' FCC has proposed turning off analogue cable transmission earlier than planned (NTSC is still being broadcast).  The proposal revolves around providing cheap basic digital STBs to those that currently rely on analogue services.

Even though this would finally mark the end of widespread NTSC broadcast in the USA, US television transmission standards (most notably frame / field rates) will remain as is.  There is no plan to move them from the current fractional rates back to integer rates as doing so would cause inconvenience to the broadcasters themselves, and cause severe problems for this class of viewers that will still be relying on composite / s-video to carry the picture to their TV.

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[newtaste]

So, if i'm getting this right, it means that cable operators will be allowed to broadcast LPTV analogue stations in digital rather than analogue as they do now.

But LPTV analogue stations will still have until 1 September 2015 to convert their over the air signal to digital??
http://www.fcc.gov/g...slator-stations

[GoForMoe]

I'd have thought no LPTV station would be in a must-carry position for a cable operator? Just that the must-carry for the now digital-only OTA channels also included an analogue simulcast requirement on cable.

Edited by GoForMoe, 22 June 2012 - 12:03 AM.