Time Warner Advances Simulcasting

[mhz40]

this forum is really for some positive feedback I felt that it was needlessly causing a pointless agrument I wasn't interested in pursuing.  I still don't like TW.  I think this simulcasting of digital anolog is absolutely pointless.  digitizing crapy analog signal doensn't make it better.  But I don't expect anything usefull out of that company.

Be careful, your inexperience with this type of thing is beginning to show...
The satellite companies encode everything from analog sources.  It's the bit rate and compression ratio that hits video quality in the mpeg world.

[GBK]

most of the stuff that digitized these days is from analog.  that wasn't my point.  I'm saying simulcasting the same channel in analog and digital after taking the analog channel and digitizing it then compressing it to fit into their stream is pointless.  I mean why have analog and then have digitzed analog??  why not have the digitized analog if the source is only analog and have digital only if the source was digital?  where are these signals digitized?  at the source... broadcast network or in a local office?  What is the point of TWC digitizing the CBS58 analog when CBS58 is already providing digital service. On the other hand digitzing a channel that isn't providing digital is different but keeping both analog and the digitized portion is stupid.

[Mark Strube]

It was my understanding that 4, 5, and 6 were actual digital feeds, not digitized analog. All I know is that on our standard tv's with a digital box, those channels look much nicer now.

[GBK]

they are but they're only available to HD customers (I think) I don't know if the digital customers get those free or if they have to subscribe to HD package to get regular networks free of charge which they are anyway.  let say that Digital customers get those networks... why carry a simulcast digital (of the analog) or even the analog for that matter.

[Mark Strube]

Any customer with a digital box gets the digital versions of 4, 5, and 6... which looks nicer than when they were in analog. So there's your answer.

[RS922]

Chs 4, 5 and 6 really do look great on TWC with the digital settop to receive the QAM signals.   I'm reminded of this every time I tune to Ch 12, which is not in digital format.  I also suspect that many folks living near the analog transmitters on Capital Drive also get much cleaner signals with a digital box.  My only gripe with the process at TW is that 10, 12, 16, 18 & 24 are not in digital format as well.   Another benefit for those with DVRs recording chs 4, 5 or 6...recording these services takes up less space on the hard drive, as the analog to digital encoder in the DVR uses more bandwidth than recording most SD digital streams.

[mhz40]

they are but they're only available to HD customers (I think) I don't know if the digital customers get those free or if they have to subscribe to HD package to get regular networks free of charge which they are anyway.  let say that Digital customers get those networks... why carry a simulcast digital (of the analog) or even the analog for that matter.

All digital subs do get the SD's.  All HD subs get the HD's as well.  You keep the analog simulcast for customers without digital service, or additional outlets feeding analog tuners in basements, kitchens, gatages, bedrooms etc...

[Mark Strube]

Getting real tired of GBK, someone who has neither satellite nor cable, filling this thread with incorrect information about both. If you're going to try and bash something, at least know what you're talking about. :bang:

[GBK]

Getting real tired of GBK, someone who has neither satellite nor cable, filling this thread with incorrect information about both. If you're going to try and bash something, at least know what you're talking about. :bang:

don't read it then.  idiot

[gparris]

Speaking of simulcasting, which is this is about in this thread, I have a link that tries to explain I found in the avsforum link.
http://www.bigbandnet.com/news/inTheNews/2005/news_053105a.php

Since Time Warner is doing this, per this article and it is very hard to follow, at least for me...
Does it mean that we as subs will get more HD channels or does it mean TWC gets to dictate what we get at any given time?
Maybe I don't understand the technology...VOD is always been slow at best and confusing to access, at least for me.