I just know that DirectTV works for me--except when it's pouring down rain!

It's been about 5 years now... Perhaps the Git household will have U-Verse soon after swearing off ComCrap for obvious reasons. They've prepped the cable on my street..... just waiting any day now for the go-a-head to sign up.

Obama.... The Bernie Madoff Of Washington

is where it's at. They can carry many more channels on digital than they can analog. The "pipe" is only so big and folks are demanding more and more HiDef.

Soon, most anything about ch 26 will be digital. At that time Comcast is going to allow 2 digital to analog converters on your account for no extra charge.

Myself, I say bring it on.

All that said, walk into the Comcast office on Dividend, they almost always find some sort of discount they can apply to my bill when I ask.

I just switched to the digital 'starter' and it's only $30 a month, which is almost $20 less than I was paying for the expanded basic cable.
We use the box (which makes it so much slower to change channels and has a million button remote to learn) in the living room but in the other room we just disconnected it and plugged the tv right into the wall to get the same old expanded basic we always had. If we feel like watching TV Guide channel or 'All Nazis all the time' (aka History Channel) we can still see them on the set with the box.

I wish we could get satellite but we had them out here and there are too many trees.

I switched to AT&T U-verse a couple of weeks ago. So far happy as a clam, and I can actually see all the TV channels I receive including those that Comcast cut from their analog service. Took a medium range TV package and internet comparable to the highest DSL speed. If you need faster internet they have several higher speed offerings. Haven't been billed yet but I was quoted a price a little above my old combined services.