Close to a year ago, I connected a Roku player to my flat-screen TV. It works well, but I am wondering if I will eventually need a Digital Transfer Adaptor (DTA) once all analog TV channels are eliminated from my cable service in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, zip code 44077. I remember reading somewhere (I think it was on TWC's website) that subscribers using a Roku or any other type of streaming video player ahead of their TVs would not need a TWC-issued DTA when the analog channels are eliminated. To date I still have 53 analog channels on the cable, and 95 digital ones; they are all working excellently, great picture, sound, etc.
I am also wondering when the analog service will disappear in this area. Since every other cable operator in this country has converted to 100 percent digital, requiring every subscriber, with no exceptions, to have a cable box ahead of the TV for the set to receive anything, I wonder when TWC will finally pull the plug on analog in my area. Apparently, this has already taken place in some Cleveland suburbs; I have a friend in Mayfield Heights who tells me all three TVs in his apartment now are connected to TW cable through cable boxes (I don't know if they are DTAs or standard HD boxes). My own TV here in Lake County is connected to TW cable, but I get reception (Starter TV, local channels only) via a Roku player. Again, if have only this player connected to my TV, but still have an active cable account with Time Warner, will I eventually need, as a minimum, a DTA to receive anything on the cable? As it stands now, I am receiving both analog and digital channels, the analog ones being 2, 3, 4, et al., the digital ones being 1002, 1003, 1004, etc. Why, if TW is eliminating analog channels, is my Roku still getting those channels along with the DTV ones? When the analog channels are finally removed from the cable, will my Roku still receive two sets of channels or, as I am expecting, just the DTV ones in the 1000s? I cannot seem to delete the analog channels from the list I see when I press the channel (left) button on my remote (RCA RCR313BR universal). The (right) button, however, will display the channel guide as normal.
Thanks.
Jeff (jhs19060)