Thread: analog feeds still going strong.

Originally Posted by htownjoe

i still flip through the analog sats everyday and catch tons of feeds, i am curious if any or many of you still watch analog feeds? i have noted every channel i have seen feeds on and have noted 105 ch or tps analog that still have occasional feeds, so still a bunch up there analog to view.

I wouldn't be surprised if analog was totally gone by the end of next year....with the way all of television is moving towards digital and the regular OTA television move from analog and digital set to be completed by the early part of 2009.

Analog is not going away anytime soon. It may be expensive for transponder lease time but the equipment cost for digital uplinking is still pretty expensive. I am sure as the years pass a analog feed will be rare but it is not happening anytime soon.

are we crossing analog c-band with OTA analog ?? are they under the same guidance ?? i know the 2009 date is for OTA analog.

nope. The rules for 2009 are for OTA ONLY

well although i don't have a digital tv yet , my sd sets are all running strong and i'm not sure i'm ready to jump to HD just because OTA has been mandated to go that route. my pc does the HD and my SD sets are both about 16 years old. i know they will eventually fail but until then i'm moving slowly toward HD. now my analog receiver is going strong on feeds. so i suspect that as long as the equipment is out there to transmit it ...... will be there ( speaking of analog c-band) now this isn't saying i wouldn't like a HD set .... i just haven't dropped down the big bux

As far as I'm concerned all those HDTVs are sure nice in the store, prices dropping all the time. But, I like the old TV shows, all programs like RTN airs, all in SD. For me it just doesn't make sense to switch just yet. Maybe when more FTA goes HD. I refuse to pay extra for HD programming. Fine if it's included like many of my movie channels. I think the nets should be free like OTA. The sponsors should be enough if I own the equipment for commercial feeds like those on G16.

I will ride out analog until the very last signal is to be found up there.

While analog transponder space maybe expensive to rent....and the equipment may be expensive....prices have gotta come down sometime. I remember reading where transponder space in the 1970s was expensive as all get out...then dropped with time as more satellites hit the skies.

Analog has been on a downhill trend since all the DVB and Digicipher hit the markets. Videocipher is evident of this...at this time 20 years ago, the technology was still taking off, and we were filled with encrypted feeds....Videocipher I and II, B-Mac, Oak Orion. Look at it now...B-Mac, VCI and the original VC2, and Orion have long vanished from the skies, and VC2+ has dwindled down to a handful of services, and even that is on its way out. If I recall correctly, there hasn't been a VC2+/RS descrambler module made in years.

I wouldn't be surprised if Analog was dead within the next couple of years entirely....