With Comcast cable, I've noticed that in the areas where they have the DMA locals plus a few out-of-DMA locals (often in "border" counties at the edge of a DMA) they are offering all of them in SD but in the HD tier they're usually ONLY offering the in-DMA locals in HD without the "significantly viewed" channels.
Examples:
Howard Cty, MD - which gets both Baltimore (DMA) and some DC (adjacent DMA/Significantly viewed) channels in SD...but only Baltimore in HD. Same thing for York County PA which gets the DMA channels (York/Harrisburg/Lancaster) in both HD/digital and analog but Baltimore, which is significantly viewed (presumably) only in SD.
Does this mean that after 2/2009 they'll only offer in-DMA stations like the DBS providers do? Or will they bring in the other channels once the bandwidth frees up from no longer having the analog stations offered?
Examples:
Howard Cty, MD - which gets both Baltimore (DMA) and some DC (adjacent DMA/Significantly viewed) channels in SD...but only Baltimore in HD. Same thing for York County PA which gets the DMA channels (York/Harrisburg/Lancaster) in both HD/digital and analog but Baltimore, which is significantly viewed (presumably) only in SD.
Does this mean that after 2/2009 they'll only offer in-DMA stations like the DBS providers do? Or will they bring in the other channels once the bandwidth frees up from no longer having the analog stations offered?