<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@derdev.com">mythtv@derdev.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't think this is a dumb question, it's certainly not one that Comcast<br>
would answer...<br>
<br>
Today I receive my local stations over QAM to my HDHR as delivered by my<br>
Comcast subscription.<br>
<br>
I'm wondering if anyone actually knows (first hand) if Comcast kills your<br>
signal completely or simply backs you down to "locals only" (like an<br>
antenna") if you completely cancel your account. I envision that it's more<br>
work for them to send a truck to kill the signal completely than it is for<br>
some support agent to back down my subscription and stop billing.<br>
<br>
Basically I'm wrestling with a decision to put up an HD antenna of my own<br>
or not... if there's a decent chance that Comcast would keep feeding me the<br>
locals, I'd love to know. Of course, YMMV will be in everyone's response -<br>
I understand.<br></blockquote><div><br>When we canceled 2 months ago, they cut off the signal completely (a couple weeks later). I think the taps in the small green post outside our house might be addressable/switchable remotely, because their truck hadn't come into our gated motor court where the post is that day (they had been there the week before; who knows).<br>
<br>If they don't do so right away, you can guarantee that they will clean it up someday, right when you're about to sit down and watch the big game or something. So better to just put up the antenna now. <br><br>
It's freeing to know that I'm $900 a year less poor, and don't have to mess with piles of converters, DTAs, IR blasters and the like...<br><br>Josh<br></div></div>