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Originally Posted by vidiot1985

I keep hearing inklings of cable companies dropping analog and going with clear QAM for "standard cable" channels to free up bandwidth for more premium services. Maybe they've reached a crossover point with new customers due to the DTV transition that makes it worthwhile for them risk losing some revenue (or increasing costs from the free boxes they'd have to give out to some folks) from using more clear QAM vs. revenue gained from more premium services being available over the freed up bandwidth???

I think the users using premium services are far too few. They'd rather milk the sure thing and force everyone to use/rent a converter box. That is what RCN did in my area when the first digital transition deadline came close. I went from having 100+ clear qam (many HD) to having 3 SD clear qam.