My grandma's house- I take care of her... she still has a black and white knob style tv. She refuses to upgrade to color.

Gimme, gimme, gimme.

I'm a glutton for punishment, I would watch Miracle on 34th St.

"What they should do, but probably won't, is drop analog altogether"

That's what they (comcast) is already trying to do. It's the DTA transition; not to be confused with DTV transition. DTV only revolves around over the air proramming. DTA is the cable company moving their own network over to all digital. If the cable companies wanted to, they could continue broadcasting analog on their HFC networks as long as they want. The problem is they lose out on massive bandwidth. For every 1 analog channel you can get around 7-12 digital or 3-5 HD. Or you can use the bandwidth for broadband (ie docsis3.0 speeds).

There was an article on here a few days ago that showed a Comcast programming update that is slated for the week of DTV transition. Roughly 40 more channels would be added to the Oregon market as a result of DTA transition.

Quality is excellent, quantity thus far is not.

I've also monitored how much bandwidth I used in 1 day of MASS usage and it was only 3GB (up and down).

Now I'm not worried I'm going to go over my 250 GB/month cap with Comcast.
I am able to stream the HD with no issues on my 8Mb down/2Mb up (soon to be 16Mb down in my area).