I had AT&T digital cable with motorola boxes, and they were absolute crap. They issued new boxes and they were better, but it still wasn't worth it, and still no HDTV. Switched to TWC after doing some fanagling. First box set I had was like the Explorer 2000 from SA. Really shitty boxes but the service was really good. New SA boxes back in April and they're awesome. Channels from 2 to like 80 something ARE analog, and everything after that is digital. I do wish they were digital sometimes, especially my sports channels. Considering the cost of the DTC-100...rumors about it not being available, and the problems I've heard of people having with them, the free HD box I got does a much better job. Except for the analog channels in front, 9 of which are my in-house channels anyways, it just makes more sense than cutting down a couple very large, shade-providing oak trees...or mounting my dish out by my mailbox.