Cable HAS to change in the next few years (Score 1)

Or else it would die outright. When the HDTV change over happens it means that anything broadcasting past 2009 (Feb 17th I think) for over the air is in HDTV....any tv I think sold from next year on has a digital tuner. Over the air HDTV not only gives you a far far sharper picture than analog but also more stations. With analog only a handful of channels look good in my area but with digital you get around two dozen. Many people I know get cable soley because they want local channels and analog ones look poor. If they are paying $10-15 a month for locals they'll find out in the long run it's better just to get a hdtv and antenna. Also is that technically cable can do anything satellite can do (actually some more given on demand and that cable modems are far faster than satellite internet) but satellite can do them for FAR cheaper. Some of this is due to dumb regulations that made sense decades ago but not now. There's a law that states that cable co's HAVE to give channels that are received over the air. The trouble is in my area I'm not far from another state. So I get MA's major networks and RI's....so the cable co as stupid as it is HAS to give you two of nbc, cbs, pbs, abc, fox, pax, upn, wb etc. It also has to give a univision one and a home shopping one etc. Another option is a FTA dish which would give you free programming granted much of it is foreign, educational or religious. If you combined say a ku band of fta with a c band and a hdtv OTA you'd get all major networks and well over 100 channels (in English)