I'm actually amazed many systems haven't done away with analog completely. As the other poster said, it would cut out a lot of thefts and the increased picture quality would probably reduce subscriber churn. I wonder if there is some law that required MSOs to keep a portion of their system analog for now. Perhaps for the 90 year old sub with cataracts who can't even tell she has an ingress problem on her channel 8.
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