Pace Boasts First Digital Cable Adapter

Not ready to throw out your brand new analog set quite yet? At the NCTA's National Show 2003, Pace Micro Technology Americas plans to display the answer: the first Digital Cable Adapter. Pace's DCA, which will convert digital video signals for viewing on analog TV sets, is a big step for the consumer market, providing

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: May 28, 2003
Updated on: Feb 23, 2018

Not ready to throw out your brand new analog set quite yet? At the NCTA's National Show 2003, Pace Micro Technology Americas plans to display the answer: the first Digital Cable Adapter.

Pace's DCA, which will convert digital video signals for viewing on analog TV sets, is a big step for the consumer market, providing an option for those with analog sets to keep their TV's and still receive digital programming.

Pace will also be showing HD set-top technology, the DC-550 HD, which is currently being deployed by Time Warner Cable and others; the DC-755 HD, a Motorola two-way network-compatible set-top; and the DC-510, which is in use by Comcast, Time Warner and Bright House Networks.

The DCA will convert digital video signals for viewing on analog television sets.

Pace Micro Technology recently unveiled its Pace 550 HD, an advanced home gateway that is part of the Pace 500 series of products for U.S. cable networks. The Pace 550 HD works for SD and HD (480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i output resolutions), and supports HD video and graphics scaling for on-screen guides. It is also abl

Time Warner Cable recently completed field trials of Pace Micro Technology's DC-550 HD digital cable set-top in several locations throughout its service area. TWC deployed over 250,000 set-top boxes, used with Scientific Atlanta headends, in 17 U.S. markets. Pace is confident that its new HD set-top will take off wit

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In this fashion, for the first time, cable operators are able to broadcast three digital HDTV or 15 digital SDTV signals in a 256 QAM channel while maintaining excellent video quality, the company said.

Digtal set-top maker Pace Micro Technology has begun shipping its DC-510 digital cable set-tops to Comcast Cable, which plans to deploy the gateways in systems throughout its service area. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed. According to UK-based Pace, the DC-510 is the smallest digital cable gateway