Comcast has chosen Motorola, Pace Micro Technology and Thomson as its digital-to-analog converter box supply vendors, Multichannel News reports. The operator will order up to 6 million converters in 2008 and 12 million next year to distribute to analog video subscribers, the newspaper says. Comcast also will use the devices to make room for high-definition channels and “wideband” Internet service, the newspaper notes.
—Vlada Gelman