FCC says HD Lite is the right of Cable or TV Station!?!?!

[Dvlos]

I submitted a complaint to the FCC regarding HD-Lite, they apparently have no regulations regarding DBS...

"Material Degradation
* The Report and Order finds that a cable operator would not necessarily be
materially degrading a digital television signal if it carries less than
the full 19.4 mbps transmitted by a broadcaster.
* The Report and Order finds that a cable operator may not carry a digital
television signal in a lesser format or lower resolution than that afforded
to a non-broadcast digital programmer carried on the cable system. However,
a digital-only television station may demand that a cable operator carry its
digital signal in an analog format without the prohibition against material
degradation being violated. If a television station chooses to be carried
in this manner, it is treated in the same manner as an analog signal.
* Cable operators are permitted to remodulate digital broadcast signals from
8 VSB to 64 or 256 QAM. Cable operators are not required to pass-through 8
VSB."

Looks like only we customers can push companies to market and advertise for true HD services.

 

[r.jones1116]

Leave it to a Gov't agency to screw things up!

 

[Tvlman]

So a station could broadcast any resolution or format and it would be ok as long as the signal that carried it was HD?

 

[Dvlos]

I guess they have the right to take their signal and lower the resolution down to 640x480 at 1mbps and still call it HD. Yeah.

It would be up to us, the consumers, to go I QUIT YOUR SERVICE YOU DIRTY RAT!!!!

 

[Vreesar]

......and the problem with that Dvlos is if all providers start doing the same thing where do we GO to?......Man this news sucks

 

[Dvlos]

We go to the one that does not, or go OTA only?? or complain every day and say we're going to quit. Eventually maybe SOMEONE will hop along and have killer HD support...I hope that one is Voom.