In Philadelphia, most of its suburbs and the far fringes west to the Appalachians, Comcast has bought all the local cable operators and converted their systems to digital. All customers must use the Motorola digital transfer adaptors and universal remotes, programmed to switch thier TVs for power and volume.
Yes Jeff, also here, For the "basic service" channels, a QAM tuner (standard on newer FPs) will still work.
I use a Toshiba DVD recorder with built-in ATSC tuner. No cable and I rarely record anything off the air. I do have Comcast though, for my internet and its pretty fast at 24MBPS typically
. The local Telco (Verizon) has no FIOS here, since its rural, not likely to see it anytime soon.
