Puddin' Man wrote:


'Scuse me, but how in the hull do *you* know what Comcast, TW,
Charter, etc are going to do in the coming years? Some doubt they
know they-own-selves.

Comcast already announced that the FCC is requiring them to discontinue
all analog channels (not true, the FCC is only requiring broadcasters to
do that) and will require everyone to get a digital box. They have
already done this in a few markets (with one a really big one).



Several years ago I could get premium (HBO, etc) channels on my NTSC
tuners. Not no' mo': gotta have a (Charter) Digital-Garbage Box (and
pay rent on it).

Last I looked, there were incentives for cable vendors to further
convert to "digital". Not directly connected to the 2009 ATSC
changeover.

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Puddin'

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