TWC Digital on the move?

[borghe]

So a friend recently happened across an interesting situation. Previously she had been carrying TWC's Standard cable service. She only had a few channels as a result and only an analog converter box.

Until last week. Last week a TWC rep strolled by her place and offered to upgrade her to a digital box with no hassle. When she asked why this was he informed her that the analog boxes were being discontinued and everyone was being moved to digital boxes.

Now for me this makes complete sense. It was only a matter of time before cable companies got tired of wasting all that bandwidth on 98 analog channels when they could instead use it for ~1000 digital channels of 98 HD channels. I just thought we would be talking 5-10 years in the future, not now.

So how about a comment from any of the TWC guys? Is the migration to an all digital service starting now? More importantly, if it is starting, when it's finished does that mean the analog cable on any TV in the house is going away anytime soon?

[gparris]

Hopefully you are going to be right.
Analogue to digital and everyone will have to get a STB until the digital sets come out. Cable ready will mean Digital cable ready as everything will be digital, at least in delivery, like satellite.

Older sets that weren't cable ready had to have boxes and now, sets that aren't digital cable ready, will use boxes to free up those awful analogue, bandwidth-wasting channels for more HD channels...!:cool:

Bring it on...but don't call TWC's "robots"...they know nothing.

[mhz40]

In a general sense, analog is going away... the clock is ticking right here on the homepage.  However, don't read into the removal of existing analog boxes. Yes it is happening, but the process has nothing to do with any plan of eliminating the analog channels...  remember, there are 10's of thousands of people with direct-connections to thier TV's too.

[borghe]

oh right, I know that.. trust me. and if you say don't read inot, I won't.. I just found it interesting that someone who couldn't care less about digital, and even after getting the box and being offered a free digital service upgrade for 3 months turnedf it down, just found it interesting,..