Weather Channel on Comcast

[kenwvt@gmail.com]

Comcast plans to have most of the country off of extended basic on analog  
this year. Right now they are rolling this out in Seattle and other areas  
out west. Comcast has ordered millions of DTAs (digital tuning adapters)  
which are very cheap cable boxes and are giving 2 free to analog tv owners.

Read this article:

http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_11620152

-Ken

On Feb 4, 2009 7:38am, Jeff Lehmann <jjlehmann@comcast.net> wrote:
> > comcast will carry the Weather Channel in HD as soon as they get all the
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> extended basic channels off of analog (like they already > have in  
Boston).
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> That may be true, but I don't think Comcast has any plans to do this right
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> now. From what I understand, the extended basic channels in Boston were
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> always scrambled, so you've always needed a cable box to receive them. In
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> most towns, these channels have not been scrambled, so they could be  
picked
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> up with any cable ready TV. Since analog cable boxes are pretty much a  
thing
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> of the past, Boston was able to get away with this, from what I've heard.
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> Jeff Lehmann
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> Hanson, MA
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