The Big switch to Digital TV - Page 2

Kyanbu The Legend · 12-01-2010, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Tev

First two (or three, depending on your package) digital converter boxes are free of charge. After that they are $1.99 a piece per month. I should know as I've been handing out over two hundred a day for the last three weeks to pissed off people who were too lazy to get this shit taken care of months ago when we were telling people this shit was going to happen.

And yes, you have to get the converters for any TV that doesn't already have a Comcast Digital box, HD box, or DVR box attached to it. This is because the digital signal that will be fed to your house will be scrambled and the digital converter boxes are more or less glorified de-scrambler boxes.

If you wanted to look at it from a social engineering perspective, Comcast is eking out some extra profits from people who have more than three TV's in their house. Teach you people to go put a damn TV in every damn room, patio, and toilet in your houses. I had to listen to four people bitch today because they had between ten and fifteen TV's in their house and they had to pay extra for each adapter beyond the first few. Who the fuck has fifteen TV's, a house to hold them all in, and still finds time to complain about their cable bill going up twenty or thirty bucks so that all their shit works?

We only need 2 (one in my room and the one in the den). So that's good to here that Comcast will hand them out for free (should have done it sooner but we've been ify about rather or not it would cost us extra).

How long will it take for them to ship the boxes out?