Goodbye GSN?

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:34:09 -0800, ric wrote:

Ron Purdue wrote:

No wonder that the BUD is sadly, dying! The time will come that ALL services
on C-band will disappear!

All services on C-band, or all services in analog? There are more
signals on C-band than 5 or 10 years ago, but more of them are switching
to digital rather than analog transmission.

In short term I think, the majority of cable type programming will
leave analog, and a bit longer, not available to home vierwes when
4DTV support is dropped, leaving only the few analog and good number
of DVB-FTA to view.

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:07:12 -0500, Raymond Pfaff
wrote:

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:36:01 -0500, Jeff Wildman
wrote:

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but I noticed that an
announcement has started popping up stating that Gameshow Network will
no longer be available on C-band effective March 8, 2004. (sigh).
Whether a digital feed will be available is unstated.

At this point in time, there's no 4DTV feed planned.

Rumour has it, one of the providers is negotiating the HITS feed for
4DTV.

Gary Tait wrote:

What they carry now, pretty well. Someone is confusing the downfall of
C-band as a whole, with the downfall of home C-band TVRO.

What, exactly, *is* "home C-band TVRO" ??

Is it HBO and other cable programming?
Is it sports and news feeds?
Is it analog?
Is it 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 digital FTA DVB?
Is it 4DTV?

Or is it a combination of the above?

Those that only have interest in analog cable programming might see C-band
TVRO in decline. Those with interest in the other aspects will not.

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:46:26 -0800, ric wrote:

Gary Tait wrote:

What they carry now, pretty well. Someone is confusing the downfall of
C-band as a whole, with the downfall of home C-band TVRO.

What, exactly, *is* "home C-band TVRO" ??

Is it HBO and other cable programming?
Is it sports and news feeds?
Is it analog?
Is it 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 digital FTA DVB?
Is it 4DTV?

Or is it a combination of the above?

Those that only have interest in analog cable programming might see C-band
TVRO in decline. Those with interest in the other aspects will not.

It is nothing particular that is there,really (as much of it is for
"industry", with home TVRO as extra to many of the industry
participants. Home TVRO is more or less the buisness of providing
hardware and programming to home dish owners. The most accurate
description above would be 4DTV, since that relies on the cooperation
of the C-band industry (namely cable broadcasters) as a whole to
remain vialble, but the failure of 4DTV would not affect the
the industry it relies on in a noticable fashion anyway.

and we'd still have "some" analog plus "some" mpeg-2 fta,if not dc2(aka
4dtv_ fta even when that was gone,so contrary to all the FUD that's out
there,C band even for BIG dish enthusiasts\hobbyists will be around for many
years yet!

Those who just want to watch tv can go pay(through the nose!) for cable and
"cable on a stick!"

C band TV Receive ONLY(TVRO) to us BIG dish owners has always meant
"freedom" "choice" and "quality video"

"Gary Tait" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:46:26 -0800, ric wrote:

Gary Tait wrote:

What they carry now, pretty well. Someone is confusing the downfall of
C-band as a whole, with the downfall of home C-band TVRO.

What, exactly, *is* "home C-band TVRO" ??

Is it HBO and other cable programming?
Is it sports and news feeds?
Is it analog?
Is it 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 digital FTA DVB?
Is it 4DTV?

Or is it a combination of the above?

Those that only have interest in analog cable programming might see
C-band
TVRO in decline. Those with interest in the other aspects will not.

It is nothing particular that is there,really (as much of it is for
"industry", with home TVRO as extra to many of the industry
participants. Home TVRO is more or less the buisness of providing
hardware and programming to home dish owners. The most accurate
description above would be 4DTV, since that relies on the cooperation
of the C-band industry (namely cable broadcasters) as a whole to
remain vialble, but the failure of 4DTV would not affect the
the industry it relies on in a noticable fashion anyway.

More like from Cassette to Compact Disk. :P I don't see all the Cband
Birds falling out of the sky any time soon.


"Patrick Martin" wrote in message
...
TVRO is changing. Like movings from the Victolla to a Stereo. Things
change in this world. There are so many channels on 4DTV that are not
available anywhere else. C Band is not dying, but analog is. Get into
digital. It is fun.

Patrick