At the beginning of July, my wife and I bought ourselves a new HDTV as our birthday present, to replace our aged 15″ CRT. I set it up, and let it auto-search for channels.
Amazingly, it picked up the whole line of cable’s Expanded Basic tier of service. We’re only paying for the “Limited Basic” tier, which is basically just local channels plus a few shopping networks and the Discovery Channel. Our CRT still only gets the limited tier channels.
I haven’t said anything about it, because I didn’t want Comcast to realize they’d screwed something up, but I just read an article explaining the situation. I encourage you to read the article, as my summary here will be short:
The Expanded Basic channels have been unenc