Odd that you should mention this. I just "upgraded" my analog cable service to digital cable primarily because my internet/cable TV package price would drop by close to $30 per month by making the change. Odd that I wouldn't have picked up on this earlier, but I watch VERY little TV anyway. So, I made the change and now have to deal with having to have a digital cable box. And, it was all it expected it would be: picture breakups into mosaic color blocks, frozen images, audio dropouts, and some channels which don't look very good due to shifting bitstream allocations around to the premium channels at the expense of less desirable channels. I also picked up several channels that I never knew about so I guess it was a net gain (no pun intended!).