Comcast Forcing Customers To Switch To Digital Cable

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment

It looks like Comcast is moving forward with their plans to migrate all of their analog cable subscribers to digital cable, despite having the infrastructure to support analog for some time to come. It appears it is an attempt to increase the monthly fees on these accounts, as the analog-only plans are the most inexpensive. Here is their letter:

Dear Comcast Customer:

In a continuing effort to bring you the best entertainment value possible, we are making some changes to your current channel lineup.

As a result of these changes, the premium channel(s) which you currently subscribe to will be available exclusively to those customers who have digital converters, and any analog packages or promotional offers you currently have that include analog premium channels may no longer be available.

However, you will be able to receive these channels on our digital lineup for a special discounted price.

Now, while they mention a discounted price, the fact is that the bill is more. The price reflects a per channel discount, yet digital cable by default includes many more channels than its analog counterpart.

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