Monday, March 17, 2003

HDTV over cable from Comcast in Atlanta

Comcast is one of the cable providers that services a big part of the Atlanta area. As of today, they started setting up appointments to upgrade their digital cable boxes to the Motorola DTC-5100 box which provides for HDTV reception over cable. For those of us that have stuggled to get our HDTV over the air, this is welcome news. Though there are conflicting reports, it appears that the channels they will provide initially include CBS, FOX, NBC, HBO-HD and Showtime-HD. My box is due to be installed this Wednesday. I've never been able to get a really good signal from CBS, so I'm excited to get this installed before March Madness and The Masters.

This huge thread on the AVS Forum tracks the history of this rollout. You can see that folks have been waiting for this and chatting about this for a while now...
Comcast (AT&T Broadband) Atlanta HDTV - AVS Forum