i recently bought my first big flat screen tv on one of those tv shopping channels and made the mistake of buying one with analog and digital. I had so many channels, plus all the duplication in analog ,,,and in digital ,,, and in HD ,,, that i went through Hell but did send the tv back.
Now with Comcast i am paying in Silicon Valley for 'digital HD tv' and yet here i am , again !! , with the inferior digital channels having the lowest number and be pushed on me and the higher quality HD channels are somewhere in the 700s !! I don't know which channels are in my package because they are not marked and differentiated from the HUNDREDS OF OTHER CHANNELS. And when i use the 'last' button on the Comcast remote , i often get in a situation where i am not going back and forth between two different programs on the higher quality HD channels , as i wish, but between the digital and HD version of the SAME CHANNEL AND PROGRAM !!
Comcast is basically a monopoly if your apartment will not let you put up a dish and AT&T is so awful. And it is so frustratingly mediocre from what it easily could and should be for the money, like $105/mo. !!