cable: uh oh

[forgotten_aria]

So recently RCN in somerville decided to abandon any of their customers that didn't want to have cablebox.

I just saw a comcast ad, talking about the dtv change over that said, "you're find if you're a comcast customer and your TVs are connected to a cable box." Does that mean they're planning on forcing people to have boxes too? My concern is that this will likely make my replay DVR unhappy and my little TV which I use often. Anyone have any real information?

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[kvarko.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! Anyway, my assertion still stands that I bet Comcast will be going all digit at some point. I tried to do a web search to get some concrete info about Somerville, but I'm not having any luck. Plenty of bloggers claiming the same thing, but nothing official from Comcast (other than that they went all digital in Chicago as early as 2007) and certainly no mention of a date. Article in the Globe (http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/06/14/rcn_dropping_analog_channels/) just indicates that Comcast is still offering analog in Somerville for now.

[kvarko.livejournal.com]

Oh, USA Today article (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2008-06-12-cable-digital_N.htm) from June suggests that Comcast is "leading the charge" to digital, specifically to convert 20% of their markets by the end of 2008 and achieving 100% through 2010.