Comcast is in the process of doing this in Western Washington as well. It started on March 31st and is set to be complete April 30th. I went in an got 2 of these digital adapters. I have one analog tv which needs one and 2 HDTV's hooked up to HDDVR's so they dont need one but the question that I cannot get a straight anwser from any of those morons is on my bedroom HDTV with a digital tuner built in do I still need this adapter box. i.e. are the channels going to be in the clear or encypted in some way. Because if they are going to need to be decoded then I would accually loose local HD as the box wont pass any HD at all.
I guess I will have to just wait any see. I havent hooked them up yet because I need to have a way to tell when they accually cut off the analog from 30-70.
I wish they would just send the basic-cable channels in clearQAM instead of encrypting everything. I'm assuming, like you are, that they are, as their regular digital service (where I live anyway) encrypts everything. I understand it for HBO or something, but for discovery for example (not even the HD one), why force people to get a box when their HDTV could tune it without one if they just used clearQAM?
Right now in atlanta they have all of the basic cable chanels in both analog and digital. I am able to tune both with my clearQAM tv. not sure if this is how it is going to last though. The other thing is that I hope that they put out a channel guide. It is a mess trying to find all of the channels.
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Comcast is in the process of doing this in Western Washington as well. It started on March 31st and is set to be complete April 30th. I went in an got 2 of these digital adapters. I have one analog tv which needs one and 2 HDTV's hooked up to HDDVR's so they dont need one but the question that I cannot get a straight anwser from any of those morons is on my bedroom HDTV with a digital tuner built in do I still need this adapter box. i.e. are the channels going to be in the clear or encypted in some way. Because if they are going to need to be decoded then I would accually loose local HD as the box wont pass any HD at all.
I guess I will have to just wait any see. I havent hooked them up yet because I need to have a way to tell when they accually cut off the analog from 30-70.
I wish they would just send the basic-cable channels in clearQAM instead of encrypting everything. I'm assuming, like you are, that they are, as their regular digital service (where I live anyway) encrypts everything. I understand it for HBO or something, but for discovery for example (not even the HD one), why force people to get a box when their HDTV could tune it without one if they just used clearQAM?
Right now in atlanta they have all of the basic cable chanels in both analog and digital. I am able to tune both with my clearQAM tv. not sure if this is how it is going to last though. The other thing is that I hope that they put out a channel guide. It is a mess trying to find all of the channels.