Intel SandyBridge... I don't get it.

[James Knott]

Kevin Cozens wrote:
> With all the talk of going digital for TV broadcasts, I do wonder how 
> the signals on cable TV may be affected at some point. I hope Rogers 
> won't drop all analog signals off the cable but I don't think I would 
> be too surprised if I heard of plans to do that at some point. It 
> would be a big hassle though for people with VCR's and DVD recorders. 
> They would need lots of additional converter boxes and/or digital/HD 
> tuners until the recorders come with HD compatible tuners in them. 

I expect they will go digital, as analog signals consume a lot of 
bandwidth.  Also, they have a lot of returned SD converts.  When I took 
mine back, last year, there were stacks of them at the local Rogers 
store.  One nice thing about the SD boxes, which I haven't seen on the 
HD ones is the ability to schedule when it tunes to a channel.  This 
works well with VCRs etc.

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