Another "fine" Enhancement By The Cable Company, Anyone encounter this at an RV Park? Options

[DXSMac]

The RV Park I'm currently spending the winter at near Seattle just got notified by their cable company that the cable connection will no longer be "direct." Meaning, you cannot just hook up your cable cord and voila get TV. Guess what, every TV, even the digital ones, will require a "box." This basically means that the RV park will have to stock those boxes, and check one out to each customer if they want TV. And hope that the box will be returned.

Another alternative is that you have to have some type of "cable card" connect to your TV, even if you already have a digital TV.

Anyone encounter this at an RV park, where you cannot even watch cable without a "box?" I have never encountered this. Oh, and guess what, you need one "box" per TV. If you have more than one TV in the TV, you need one box per TV.

I have already seen the banners from the cable provider run across the programs while watching TV.

[Dutch_12078]

I called a friend that owns a campground in Upstate NY to see if he had heard anything from Time Warner Cable about an all digital switch over. I know they're moving a few channels from analog to digital soon, but I don't know if/when they're moving them all. He said either TWC or a contractor is supposed to install a new rack in his office building that will hold digital to analog converters for each channel he subscribes to, plus the requisite multiplexers and amplifiers to feed the signal out to the sites, replacing his current TWC supplied distribution system. From a camper standpoint, it will be "business as usual", with no obvious change or need for individual boxes. He didn't know yet what effect the changeover will have on his costs.