Those channels you get in the basic package are available via ClearQAM anyway. If you have your net connection hooked up you still get them in HD as well as a few others in SD.
Not up here in the Great White North. All the cable providers encrypt ALL their channels, even the locals.
Thanks goodness OTA is so good in my area: 22 channels of digital goodness. -- "It's all coming down!!" - Mike Holmes
