Absolutely, and you've seen about a dozen messages posted in the last week that show the path, some in this thread: They are trading off lower profit analog customers for higher profit digital customers. In the first reply in this thread, I wrote:
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Companies always work to fulfill their fiduciary responsibility to their owners, but this specific change is also for subscribers... If you must have someone to blame, blame ME because I want Travel Channel in HD, and I want DOCSIS 3.0, and the only way for companies to offer more channels in HD and super-fast Internet is by getting rid of the analog service (which, incidentally, satellite companies and alternative providers like FiOS and U-Verse don't provide now -- that's really the most indefensible aspect of the criticisms of the cable companies doing this: The competitors already operate this way... why aren't people condemning the companies that have never provided analog in-the-clear?)
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And then, more succinctly:
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They are making room for new services that I want. I'm willing to pay them more for what I want than you are willing to pay them for analog expanded basic. I win. Wanna make something of it? 
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So the formula for service providers is to reallocate their limited bandwidth to better serve customers who contribute more to the bottom line.
