It's happening eventually.
TV over Internet is where the industry is heading and traditional digital cable is going the way of the dodo, like analog TV before it.
As far as I know, Rogers hasn't set a hard cutoff date yet, but that's where the road is heading.
Out of curiosity, is there a hard date in your letter? Or is it just a generalized sales pitch?
TV over Internet is where the industry is heading and traditional digital cable is going the way of the dodo, like analog TV before it.
As far as I know, Rogers hasn't set a hard cutoff date yet, but that's where the road is heading.
Out of curiosity, is there a hard date in your letter? Or is it just a generalized sales pitch?
@mrpete wrote:
I recieved a letter saying Rogers will phase out cable services and my current TV service will no longer be available. To avoid these impacts move to Rogers ignite. Is this true?
I don't want ignite!
What part of the country do you live in?
I have heard reports that Rogers will be decommissioning legacy/traditional Digital Cable TV infrastructure for former Source Cable customers. I would also expect this to happen in areas that Rogers upgrades to Fiber to the Home, when they cease to deliver service over coax. However, as far as I know, Rogers has not announced any plans to sunset Digital Cable just yet.
Found this article in the Hamilton Spectator: https://www.thespec.com/business/2021/04/15/rogers-phasing-out-source-cable-service.html
According to the report, the affected customers have until mid-May to upgrade to Ignite to avoid a gap in service.
This happens all the time, planned obsolesce.
The Digital cable you watch on your TV comes from Rogers, but Rogers did not invent the technology, other companies invented and build the equipment to transmit the signals from the Head End to your house. That equipment has been around for quite a long time and its likely at its end of life span. This means the vendors do not produce new equipment anymore, there's no support, and stuff that is being decommissioned in the field is being replaced by another vendor which uses a newer different technology (IPTV).
Basically if u want to continue watching TV you have to switch to the Ignite system.
This is not new thing, this happens to everything remember cash registers were all manual back in the day, ya they got obsolete and replaced with computers. Cellphones? they were all analog, they got replaced and moved over to a digital technology. Audio Cassettes? ya those got replaced with CDs and eventually digital downloads.
The Digital cable you watch on your TV comes from Rogers, but Rogers did not invent the technology, other companies invented and build the equipment to transmit the signals from the Head End to your house. That equipment has been around for quite a long time and its likely at its end of life span. This means the vendors do not produce new equipment anymore, there's no support, and stuff that is being decommissioned in the field is being replaced by another vendor which uses a newer different technology (IPTV).
Basically if u want to continue watching TV you have to switch to the Ignite system.
This is not new thing, this happens to everything remember cash registers were all manual back in the day, ya they got obsolete and replaced with computers. Cellphones? they were all analog, they got replaced and moved over to a digital technology. Audio Cassettes? ya those got replaced with CDs and eventually digital downloads.
Looks like we have some posts that got merged into an existing thread, but the common theme here are issues affecting former customers of small regional cable companies that were acquired by Rogers. I'm also almost certain that these Digital Cable customers do not have Scientific Atlanta/Cisco/Technicolor cable boxes so, at some point, aging, obsolete and incompatible infrastructure in these service areas will need to get replaced with current technology.
There is no information on this topic yet. There probably won't be until there are only a very few months left. This sort of information is usually kept confidential until the latest possible moment or something "leaks out" with very little notice.
I assume you're talking about Rogers Legacy Digital Cable everywhere. Some of the earlier posts in this thread were specific to small cable companies, like Source cable or Mountain cable that Rogers purchased. I believe, these had Motorola equipment and head ends that were not compatible with Rogers' (Ontario) current Legacy Digital Cable. These were phased out to IgniteTV because Rogers wasn't going to switch those systems to Cisco/Scientific Atlanta equipment, preferring to migrate everyone on those (Motorola) systems to IgniteTV in one step.
Motorola is in use in all of Rogers Atlantic Canada, but they never had Cisco/SA. I'm not sure if Rogers Atlantic Legacy Digital Cable will be phased out to IgniteTV before, after, or at the same time as Rogers Ontario. Since there are probably fewer customers there, it may happen before Ontario, but that would be pure speculation.
@aboyaci wrote:
Now that it is November 2022, are there any details of when Rogers Digital TV will be phased out? Is there a plan on when they will say, that's it - we are completely shutting off the legacy systems? Very curious to know?
I will assume there is still a ton of people with digital cable still.
Rogers has not provided any details about their plans other than publishing this FAQ: https://www.rogers.com/support/tv/discontinuation-of-our-digital-tv-packages
At some point, Rogers will also migrate neighbourhoods to their next-generation Fibre-Powered Internet and that infrastructure will no longer be able to support the old legacy services.
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