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by Seaan on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:23:52 AM PDT

This can be done, at least in the California central coast region. I had extended basic service (approx 60 channels), but I never found it worthwhile to get digital cable (incidentally this also meant I stopped purchasing PPV since Comcast no longer offers that on analog).

When I bought a HDTV, I looked at the options and found there is an option for extended basic + HDTV. They don't advertise it, but most regions have it. I had to pay $5 a month per box extra, and it is basically the same box you get for DVR/digital cable. BTW - their HD line up is slowly improving but still way behind satellite (now have around 10-15 channels, up from the 6 they had last year).

The DVR option is a joker, they will not sell you the DVR functionality without Digital cable - e.g. $30/month more than I'm paying now. It does not take very many months of that to make buying a HD Tivo a much better deal! Which I have not done yet, but I'll leave DVR discussions for another post.

One odd thing about this is the partial channel receptions. Of course I don't get most of the digital cable stations - no problem with that. But I do get some - for example our local PBS station has 4 or 5 digital broadcasts that I can receive. I also can use the Comcast OnDemand (a good feature that - one of the few places Comcast is doing something right) occasionally to view material from a digital channel that I don't receive live (hmm, maybe there is a benefit to this being a little known option).

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