"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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Anyway, what's most interesting to me is you saying that you must have
a Comcast box with a digital TV to pick up the "digital" package, when
I was told by Comcast that I could plug directly into a digital TV.

--Vic

I think I may have confused or misstated that. Our digital tvs receive
both digital and analog fine right from the wall .... no box. Last time I
checked there were somewhere around 28-30 digital channels active and the
rest (70 or 80 or so) were analog.

Comcast moved MSNBC and a couple of other channels from the previous analog
channel (59)to a digital channel (114). In the process they dropped it from
being in the basic service to another level which requires the use of their
box to receive. That's the only reason for the box.

Eisboch