Can anybody explain analog to digital cable conversion. Does the service provider need to access my property?
If anyone is telling you that he needs to access your property due to the digital TV conversion that occurred last week (June 12-13), it may be a scam because that conversion only related to over-the-air (OTA) TV, not cable nor satellite. In the case of cable companies that are gradually converting all of their channels to digital, you may be required at some point to obtain a new set-top-box, but there’s no reason for any cabling change. And the cable company may provide a basic STB for free if you previously didn’t have one and all of your analog channels on the cable are gone. Bottom line, I’d be suspicious of any suggestion that someone needs to visit you because of the analog-digital conversion. To follow up on the other answer that suggests changing your in-house cable from RG-59 to RG-6, the time to do that is after you’ve installed and set up your new STB and found the performance lacking. It may or may not be necessary. My house has a very long run of RG-59, and my Comcast HD
