After years of promises, U.S. cable operators are finally getting serious about going digital.
Cable operators hope to offer customers, over time, a package of phone, video and Internet hookups.
They aim to compete with the big regional Bell phone companies, which are pulling together consumer packages of their own. 1 Priority' Customers seem to be heeding the call of digital. Comcast has been focusing its marketing efforts to date on customers who subscribe to Home Box Office and other pay-TV services. Discovery, for example, now offers several digital channels that are dedicated to sundry subjects, including children and science. Comcast Digital is now available to more than two million customers, expected to hit three million by the end of April.