Spectrum Internet + TV Select + Voice: Limited time offer subject to change valid to qualified residential customers who have not subscribed to any services within the previous 30 days and who have no outstanding obligation to Charter. Enter your address to determine availability. Services subject to all applicable service terms and conditions, subject to change. Account credentials may be required to stream some TV content online. Channel and HD programming availability based on level of service. General Terms: TV: TV equipment required charges may apply. Taxes, fees and surcharges (broadcast surcharge up to $21.00/mo) extra and subject to change during and after the promotional period installation/network activation, equipment and additional services are extra. Spectrum TV® Select promotion price is $49.99/mo standard rates apply after yr. Spectrum is simply using it as a means of encrypting their signal so that they can force customers to pay for a decoder box.Spectrum TV Select: Limited time offer subject to change valid to qualified residential customers who have not subscribed to any services within the previous 30 days and who have no outstanding obligation to Charter. TL DR - All digital cable does NOT require a converter box for most modern TVs. I am cancelling my Spectrum services entirely and I suggest anyone who has this option without sacrificing their lifestyle do the same. Companies like Spectrum have already had to be broken up once before in history for these types of things, and they are being allowed to monopolize again. Now, they are charging people to USE that signal in addition to that. People are already paying them for the signal itself, and for them to deliver the signal to your house.
That's what they are doing with your cable, except you are your TV and the book is the cable signal. Imagine if you bought an English copy of a book, and they sent you the book in Chinese, then made you pay to have it translated back into English so that you could read it. They are selling a solution to a problem that they are causing for the sole purpose of selling you that solution. What they are doing is exactly like if a restaurant made your food, but then poisoned it as it was leaving the kitchen and made you pay for the antidote so that you could eat it and not die. It is completely usable before they encrypt it, but they purposely make it unusable, so that you have to pay extra to make it usable again.
They are selling you a TV signal that you cannot use, and then forcing you to pay for a device that allows you to use it. They are converting to digital specifically so that they can encrypt their signal and force users to lease their converter box. They could very easily convert to an all digital format without encryption, and older TVs would require a converter box, but one that could be purchased outright from a 3rd party for around $30.
What they are doing is eliminating the analog signal and replacing it with a digital one, because digital signals can be encrypted. Having a digital signal alone does not stop your modern TV from being able to get a signal. If you wanted to get the additional 2-way features that they are advertising will come along with the conversion, all you would have to do is simply order a cable box for each TV you wanted to use those features with. If Spectrum was really switching to an all digital format for the purpose of increasing quality, they could do so without the need for a converter box. Any modern TV can receive a digital signal directly from the wall.
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