The Digital Race.
Multichannel News, April, 2007 by Hearn, Ted
By Ted Hearn
How One Cable Operator Converted Its System In Four Months
Washington-- Going all-digital can happen in a hurry. And proof isn't far away.
It's in Puerto Rico. The Caribbean island's second largest cable operator, Liberty Cablevision, last year finished converting all of its 111,000 subscribers to entirely digital video services in a rapid-fire, $10 million program that led to the shut down of traditional analog service in roughly four months.
The benefits of an all-digital platform are easy to tout. By converting scores of analog channels into digital ones, cable companies can recapture as much as two-thirds of the bandwidth on their networks. With the newfound capacity, operators can offer an array of...
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