[GTALUG] an odd question about well on going service factors.

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

I understand that you have important sensory and processing challenges.
I also understand that experimentation can cause injury.

Characterizing your requirements for us has seemed very difficult.  Those 
of us who have tried to help have not managed to understand the techncial 
characteristics well enough to make suggestions that you've considered 
useful.

My interpretation of your messages is that you need analog services.

All Bell Fibe services over fiber are digital.  In fact, even Bell POTS 
(Plain Old Telephone Service) is digital up until the last mile (copper 
wire from the Centrol Office to your handset).

All services turn into analog for deliver to our ears and eyes or from our 
mouths.

Do you know what part you need to be analog?

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Similarly, all TV in Canada is now digital.  OTA (over the air, free) TV 
has all switched from NTSC (analog) to ATSC (digital).  Rogers Cable, Bell 
Fibe, Bell Satellite, etc. are all digital now.

You can get boxes that convert digial signals to NTSC analogue so that old 
TVs can continue to work.

Streaming services, over the internet, should not be qualitativly 
different from those from Bell-supplied set-top boxes.  But they might be.

| From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| To: talk at gtalug.org
| Cc: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
| Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 14:30:07 -0400 (EDT)
| Subject: [GTALUG] an odd question about  well on going service factors.
| 
| Hi folks,
| Tapping into your genus once again.
| At this moment Bell and I continue to fight, land line wise and otherwise.
| they seem to be preventing Teksavy from helping me either, I get an announced
| visit when not home, then weeks of someone will call you with a solution.
| If I am honest, because my analog phone services support my brain health and I
| expected to be back on track all this is rather emotionally challenging.
| then there is the television situation, which leads to my question.
| My landlord is including access to his Fibe TV account, he already provides
| internet as a part of my rent.
| That means I need a set top box of some kind, my television is conventional, I
| do not use the Internet for viewing, its not inclusive for my combination of
| disability experiences.
| Here is the question..or two of them.
| first, is there a universal box of some kind that I can get which will let me
| access the available Fibe TV services without using one from Bell
| specifically?
| if not then...
| Second, can one just rent a set top box by itself?
| Thanks all around,
| Karen
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