[BC] Cable rips off HDTV

[Dale Adkins]

Not to worry for me.  I have no cable...no Dish Network....no Direct TV.
Just my trusty antenna and digital converter box and wireless internet.
But I do have a "free to air" satellite dish.  Does anybody else have FTA?
DA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net>

> Cable TV broadcast ain't no more…
>
> Comcast just sent me a letter that states that I will need to use a new 
> "set top box," which they will install "free." Of course, the set-top-box 
> ends up using my TV only as a computer monitor (through HDMI) so, if 
> installed as they require, I will no longer be able to receive any off-air 
> HDTV at the push of a button. Furthermore, they will remove the QAM 
> channels as they now exist on the cable so that if I don’t install the 
> box, I get no cable television at all.
>
> Not to worry. I just use Comcast cable for my Internet connection.