By Scott Sloan - ssloan@herald-leader.com Insight Communications, Lexington's cable provider, will begin to transition some of its channel lineup to all-digital later this month.

For a few months now, the company has touted its switch to all-digital, which is requiring customers to install new equipment on televisions that aren't already connected to an Insight digital cable box.

Spokesman Jason Keller said more than 90 percent of residential customers in Lexington now have the capability of being fully digital, either by having an Insight digital box or by requesting and installing the equipment, which is called a mini-box. The mini-box plugs into the back of a television and essentially functions like the converter boxes that were popularized by the move from analog to digital over-the-air network TV.

The company initially planned to provide customers up to two free mini-boxes and charge for the remainder but has since decided to give them away for free to existing customers until a 75-cent monthly fee per mini-box begins during 2013.

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