In NYC (at least from my experience), Both Time Warner and Cablevision scramble all their analog signals, so a box was always required. When you put the coax cable into a cable-ready set, you got nothing. No premium channels, no Food Network, no WNBC 4 signal. TWC/Cablevision swapped out their analog boxes for digital boxes as well in most installs. This little experiment is also the nail in the coffin for analog black boxes...
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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In NYC (at least from my experience), Both Time Warner and Cablevision scramble all their analog signals, so a box was always required. When you put the coax cable into a cable-ready set, you got nothing. No premium channels, no Food Network, no WNBC 4 signal. TWC/Cablevision swapped out their analog boxes for digital boxes as well in most installs.
This little experiment is also the nail in the coffin for analog black boxes...