Until recently, we owned two analog TVs which were hooked up to Comcast without one of those boxes that are required if you want cable channels such as Pay Per View and In Demand along with their Basic Cable packages. We are subscribers to Comcast, of course, but we're on a tight budget and need to avoid extra fees and as long as we can receive non-scrambled channels that we pay for, we're happy without the darned boxes, which cost an additional $3.00 a month.

My question is this: When the switch to digital-only broadcasting begins, owners of LCD or Plasma TVs don't need to worry about having to get boxes, right?