I think you will regret choosing digital cable, but that is just my opinion. It just doesn't seem to have the options DirecTV has for movies and sports. But if you are not into either of those, you won't mind at all having digital cable.

Well, between movies and sports, sports is more important to me. As far as I can tell, all DirecTV offers that digital cable doesn't have is the NFL Sunday Ticket, and the only NFL games I really care that much about (Eagles games) are already on the normal channels anyway. I don't care about the Bengals playing the Chiefs. Digital cable offers the NBA and NHL packages, which are more important.. And as I was flipping through the channels (*s*l*o*w*l*y due to digital cable's crappy channel guide and crappy cable box which slows things down) I saw an insane amount of sports channels like ESPNNow, ESPNNews, etc. which I never had before. The local Fox Sports Net channels aren't of much interest to me, so I wasn't going to go with that package (besides they black out all the basketball/hockey games so they can sell you the season packages.)

I think only regret so far with digital cable are the stupid clunky box which takes 2-3 seconds to flip channels. But it was a much easier install than DirecTV would have been. At least channel-flipping on my other TV's is fast since I'm not using their dumb box.

I wish they'd send out a firmware upgrade or something to make the damn thing faster flipping between channels. What do they have, an 8088 inside those damn things?

Yeah I was going to mention that the channel flipping sucks, but then I thought maybe not all boxes are like the one I had. I guess they are. Well, for me it's all about hockey, so I agree that the center ice package is essential, which is on digital cable. I hope it works out for you.

New Hughes and RCA boxes flip very quickly. TiVo boxes move like the dead.

TiVo boxes move like the dead

Is that because of the 2 sec. long pipeline between the ins and outs?

Yes, but, honestly, if you get a TiVo you won't ever flip again. I don't have the time to watch the stuff it records for me as it is.

I wish they'd send out a firmware upgrade or something to make the damn thing faster flipping between channels. What do they have, an 8088 inside those damn things?

No, they've got a 4004 in there, with a hamster in a wheel providing power.