Currently I am receiving all my programming through cable. Some of my TVs are analog cable ready which are directly corrected to the cable system without a cable box. After the 2009 cut over to digital, will I be able to continue to receive programming on these TVs without a digital box, using either a generic digital converter or without a converter at all as I am currently using. Will the cable companies continue to offer analog programming over the wire or will they force their customers to get a set top boxes. In other words, are they still obligated to continue to provide analog programming after this point?
After digital tv cutover will I be able to receive cable programming using a generic digital converter?
If you continue to use cable, you will not be affected by the 2009 transition. The 2009 transition affects only Over The Air (OTA) broadcasts, cable and satellite providers should still support analog until about 2012.
If you wish to receive OTA programming, you will need to upgrade to a digital TV receiver or get a converter box and hook up to an antenna.
Reply:The big answer is, yes, you cant use your existing equipment to recieve over the air broadcast television signals. small answer is you wont have to, since you will need a cable box for any DTV signals... on the nice side most cable channels will be another 30 years converting so a simple cable connection will still work for the next 20 years analog, they want to push the digital, but make you rent the converter as they have for the last 10 years. the first 100 channels of your channel line up are analog using that box, have been since they started, that will not change easily. Cable TV providers will not allow us to access thier digital channels without a box, that will not change. The FCC has nothing to do with it at this time.
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