Comment Re:franchise agreement (Score 1) 539
The original poster said expanded basic, and not basic. Comcast's "analog crush" still sends the locals (ie, basic) as analog (at least here in Boston) - its just the expanded basic that are now digital-only. In any case, the analog crush is a very good thing to many of us. It means far more HD channels become available. Depending on the compression used, 1 analog channel takes the same bandwidth as at least 2 HD channels (though Comcast seems to want to squeeze 3 into that space) or something crazy like 20+ digital SD channels.