AFAIK Comcast will continue to provide analog signals until the 2012 deadline. However, they can also follow some other cable companies by providing free converter boxes to basic cable subscribers.

On 05/29/2009 04:21 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
<g...@freephile.com> wrote:
... Comcast is distributing little Digital to Analog converters (along
with their switchover to DTV broadcasts) ...

  I thought the DTV switchover was mainly a problem for people
receiving TV via OTA broadcast (over-the-air, i.e., antennas).  I
thought the CATV companies could basically keep sending analog signals
forever.  Or are they jumping on the digital-only bandwagon, too?

http://www.dtv.gov/topfaqs.html#faq3

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