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damaged by outside digging. She said I would expect to hear from them by 
Jan 15th.

>
> If you can't get a straight answer out of Comcrap (which would NOT surprise
> me), you might want to call the FCC,

Anyone know where at the FCC I should start? (dept?)


>
> > I am told that I will need the set top boxes. But that they are not
> > "tuners" and would allow me to use my existing Tuners as they are but my
> > signal quality would not be "as good" as digital (as I assume it is with
> > analog anyway)
>
> In any event, I *suspect* that they are talking about a conventional
> "modern" STB (which is indeed a "tuner", at least in the sense that is
> meaningful to this discussion), which happens to have an RF output
> (typically switchable to use VHF channel 3 or 4) for compatibility with
> ancient TVs without line-level A/V inputs.  Hence, you would indeed be
> "using" the tuner in your TV -- but only to leave it permanently set to
> whichever channel the STB is set to output on, while all the actual
> *tuning* would be executed by the STB itself.

That is my suspision as wel, but I wanted to ask if anyone else had heard 
of such a box that magically made life all better for us PVR-500 type 
users ;)


> 1. - Is there a known date in the immediate/near/foreseeable future after
> which you MUST have a "converter box" of some sort in order to continue to
> use their services, even if all you are interested in is their
> retransmission of your local broadcast stations?
>
> 2. - If the answer to Q1 is "Yes", what *exactly* is the make and model of
> this box?
>
> With that info in hand, someone here can surely tell you what is (or isn't)
> happening.

I will ask, thanks for the info.

Nick