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Originally Posted by Chad Hauris
I think some cable companies are cutting back to analog for just channels 2-13 only...in order to get the higher channels they are requiring you to get a digital cable box.
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That would explain why they are moving some "semi decent" channels from the VHF band to the higher channels. They took the Hallmark channel and one other channel off of analog and moved it to digital. Now, if you want those channels, you have to rent a box. I know some older people that went that route. Channel 2 was TBS, now it's the TV guide channel. 4 was HBO, now it's the Home shopping network (like I care about that), 8 was CNN, now it's the CW network. 11 is QVC, but has interference from OTA channel 11. I'm sure that will change when OTA goes digital. If I had a digital OTA tuner, I could receive everything of interest, except WGN, that is available on the VHF cable channels. The C***ast CSR that I talked to when I got cable tried to talk me into taking a digital package because she claimed they were going "digital" sometime in '08. I guess we'll see what happens...