Thus the need for the aftermarket converter boxes. Some tvs, prior to the switchover, were able to pick up air signals, but now they are not since the signals are transmitted digitally. If your other tvs were hooked up to cable (100+ channels) via cable boxes, you didn't need to buy an additional converter box. You only have converter boxes purchased for the digital switchover last year for the other tv's?

You are a comcast subscriber and have cable set up for one tv?Ģ. Ok, two of my buddies are Comcast Cable guys, so that makes me expertly qualified. Can we buy those boxes ourselves rather than from Comcast? Cause frankly they're already charging too much, and I already feel ripped off over the digital cable thing, so I don't want to ask them for extra boxes and see my bill shoot up more. We'd love to have them all hooked up, but without the 'adapter' boxes, it's no go. Same time, another Q: we only have 3 'boxes' - big one and two small adapters - but we have 5 TVs in the house. So why am I paying for digital cable and not getting said digital cable on all TVs capable? Now one of our TVs is an older 1995 tube-type, so it makes sense. It lets us get our digital cable signal, no problemo, on said main TV.įor the other TVs in the house, we get a smaller, lesser, desk calendar size 'adapter' box. The main TV of the house has a digital one, big boxy thing, larger than our blu-ray or DVD player (yes, we have both, don't ask). We had to get these 'adapter' boxes for our TVs. So the other year, the whole big 'digital transition' hub-bub. figured someone here must know the answer, be able to explain this to me.

So just a question for some of my fellow Comcast customers.

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