 darciliciousCyber LibrarianPremium
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Forest Grove, OR
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 ·Frontier FiOS
| reply to Don Slade
Re: Even less excuse to cap said by Don Slade:I saw this coming. And I doubt that the providers will be 'giving' any new hardware for free. They will drive all subscribers to digital set top boxes and charge for those even though they are required to receive programming. Vz is providing up to three "digital adapters" for free to customers who are going through the digital transition. The idea being that if you previously connected your TV directly to a cable out of the wall, you won't see a disruption in service. (Even better, the digital adapters will actually give you everything you subscribe to you sans HD which is more than folks got out of the wall).
Even so, a TV with a QAM tuner can still get all the unencrypted channels (typically 2-49, and the HD broadcasts from local networks) straight from the coax. |
