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We just got our notices from Comcast about the digital switchover coming to our neighborhood. Basically, we're going to get nothing on our TVs without a digital box.
Luckily, for the TVs we watch the most, we have our TivoHD hooked up with a cablecard, so we're covered there. However, in the extra bedroom, we have a TV hooked right into the line, so we had to do something.
Comcast offers two options, only one of which is free, so that's the one we took! It's what they call a Digital Transport Adaptor or "DTA" for short. Essentially, it's the least amount of technology they can put on the end of the cable to get you digital channels. The upside is that now everything is crystal clear... ghosting is a thing of the past. The downside is that it won't get all the channels that we get with the cablecard, and we still don't get Comcast onDemand.
The DTA in the extra bedroom is hooked up to a standard definition Tivo, so it's yet another Guided Setup and picking the channels we receive. In case you're in the same boat with your Tivo, hopefully, Google will pick up this post and you'll be able to see the list of channels that we get:
2-70 no change (62, 67-69 are still missing premium channels)80 G481 Toon99 Univision100 CSPAN2(it is beyond me as to why they don't put Weatherscan local in the clear on these boxes!)104 Bloomberg105 CSPAN3110 Science115 Bio116 History International118 Style119 Lifetime Movie Network123 Oxygen127 Toon128 Sprout130 Discovery Kids137 Hallmark162 G4 (again!?)176 Leased Access177 TV Guide Network179 Gameshow Network229 WUXPDT2 (TheCoolTV)241 WNPTDT2245 WKRNDT2 (Middle Tennessee Weather)246 WSMVDT2 (Telemundo)248 WLLC-LP (Telefutura)249 WTVFDT3 (ThisTV)250 WTVFDT2 (NewsChannel 5+)920 An inactive Comcast channel