All of next week I will be moving to a new apartment, closer to where I work, and I was very afraid I’d have to get sattelite, or maybe nothing at all. I work in a small town in the middle of nowhere, so I wasn’t sure if I could get cable, and the fact that in that town, almsot every house has a dish on it confirmed those fears. When I called Adelpia to cancel my current acble and start it there, they told me they don’t service that area! Ack! I have an apartment, I don’t think the landlard wants me putting a dish on the side of it. Plus, I need cable internet. DSL is not good enough for me.
Luckily, Time Warner services the area. Now, say what you will about TW, they are still better than Adelphia, I have noticed. Currently I pay over $90/month for basica cable and internet. I get a paltry 65 channels (I think…the numbers go to 72, but several are missing, might even be closer to 60.) That, to me, seems outrageous. I confirmed this when looking at TW packages. High speed internet and digital cable (over 200 channels) for slightly more per month (just under $100/month.) Still seems pricey, but much more of a deal. The only downside is I get the wrong local channels. Here, I get the same ones I did when growing up in VT, ones I know and love (because I know when they show syndicagted episodes of The Simpsons
) When I move, I’ll get local channels out of Syracuse. 
One thing I am still unsure of…when I get digital cable, will the HD channels automaticall be HD, or do I have to tell them I also want HD and pay more? (I already have an HDTV, so I don’t need a receiver, unless I want HD on my bedrom TV, which I don’t, since I never watch it.).
Here’s a link to my package
Now, it lists several HD on on-demand channels. Do I get those normally, or is it a “Every one you want is $5 more a month” deal? Yeah yeah, I know I’ll find out when they return my call to get it actualyl set up, but I was just wondering if anyone knew offhand.