Article: Comcast makes switch from analog to digital programming.(City/Region)(Subscribers can pick up free digital conversion boxes at a Comcast office)

Byline: Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard

Turn on your TV.

If you're a Comcast cable subscriber in the Eugene-Springfield area, Corvallis or Albany, things are probably pretty different. This morning, the cable company switched channels 31 and above from an old-fashioned analog signal to digital.

Depending on your cable plan - and if you've taken the right steps - that could mean you're enjoying the girls of Bret Michaels' "Rock of Love Bus" on VH1 with the newfound clarity of digital picture and sound.

Or, you're staring at a blank screen with a message telling you to contact Comcast.

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