[Jeffhs]

I went from analog to digital cable shortly after learning that all television broadcasting will be digital by 2006 or, as Bryan said in his last post, "whenever the (expletive) that happens . . . " I have an RCA XL-100 19" TV set that works well for me; I just purchased a 3-year service contract on it and don't want to have to junk it just because everything will be digital (yeah, sure--and I'm the king of Siam; we all know how slowly the government works) in two and a half years or so. One of the technicians from Comcast cable recently told me, however, that the FCC cannot completely outlaw analog TV, because of the sheer number of analog televisions (in the millions in this country alone) currently in use. The cable companies realize this full well, which is why Comcast (and most other cable operators) will provide digital-to-analog converters on a lease basis to subscribers with analog TV sets. In addition to wanting to be ready for the change to all-digital, whenever that comes (!), I went to digital cable because two of my favorite cable channels (Game Show Network and the National Geographic Channel) are now exclusively on Comcast digital cable and are not available on the analog service.