Comcast customers in the Portland area who subscribe to the company's bare-bones "limited basic" TV package have been getting letters that say But it turns out some customers don't actually need the ...

This is for the handful of Comcast customers who get its "Limited Basic" service, but without a Comcast digital adapter or set-top converter box. Starting Oct. 23, if you want to keep getting their ...

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The simplest form of cable TV service is getting a tad more complicated. Comcast has begun requiring that its "Limited Basic" customers -- those subscribers who ...

Comcast says it will increase its rate for a low-cost cable television offering, called “limited basic service,” to $16.50 a month from the current $15.07 monthly rate, effective July 1. The cable ...

Cable provider Comcast is preparing to transform the Davis cable system’s “Limited Basic” television channels — very roughly Channels 2 to 34 — from an old-style analog format to a new digital format, ...

The rabbit-ears crowd made the switch. Now, it’s time for Twin Cities cable-television holdouts to go digital. Metro area Comcast subscribers who have Basic 2 service are being nudged into the 21st ...

Time Warner Cable was the only major pay-TV company to reduce the price of basic cable TV over the past four years, a new report out Monday has found. The New York cable company reduced the advertised ...

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Well, this is quite a blow to basic cable viewers. Up until recently, Comcast has allowed subscribers to access certain channels without adding a set-top box for every TV -- instead, you'd simply ...

Subscribers to Chattanooga's least expensive cable TV service will be able to nearly double the number of channels they receive if they pick up a digital adapter. Comcast is expanding its digital ...

I have basic cable from Comcast (I guess it's actually "extended" since I have Comedy Central and such), no box or anything like that. I currently record TV with my Hauppage PVR-150.<BR><BR>If I were ...