01-01-2008, 10:24 PM
The law as I understand it applies only to over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts, not cable. So they are under no legal obligation to switch on the same date. The cable companies can just keep digital to analog converters feeding the channels into their systems as the OTA analog signals go away. At some point they will want to convert, and the first sign will probably new fees for customers still using analog cable. Or drop the fees for getting basic digital. I suspect the first though as I have rarely seen a cable company not go for every dollar they could get out of a customer.