Bob
As an observer, I feel your pain on not getting any HD's on your neglected CC system.
Here's my 2 cents worth. Comcast is not big in central Florida. Comcast bought the Dunnellon & Williston systems in 2006. Your system is a 625mhz HFC system, not the latest bandwidth, but at least the fiber & nodes are in place and it is not all analog. More current systems are 750-860mhz. The Williston Comcast system has less bandwidth & SD channels, and no HD also. Your system also suffers from very low subscriber ratio against the number of homes passed at 23%. This very low number of subs doesn't help much in the investment CC needs to make to upgrade the system.
The digital transistion by removing the analogs will help reclaim bandwidth to add more HD's instead of a partial system rebuild. Upgrading the headend is another matter, another large investment. Interconnecting the Dunnellon & Williston systems to the larger up to date Leesburg headend would be more beneficial than upgrading the existing headends. Running fiber or a microwave link to Leesburg would be doable for CC to interconnect your system to Leesburg but is still 40-50 miles.
Comcast probably shouldn't have bought these 2 systems, it is opposite their business plan of acquiring many systems in an area, and interconnecting them. These 2 systems probably would benefit by being sold to Brighthouse Networks, who already have a large presence in the area including Ocala, Crystal River, Inverness & Brooksville. Connecting your system to an esisting local BH system or running fiber to Ocala would make more sense than CC keeping the systems and connecting to the Leesburg CC system.
It could be Comcast's plan not to do anything to these systems, and eventually dump them. They probably were acquired as a larger buy of cable systems from Mickelson Media, when the purchase took place.
Perhaps it's time to bail out and find a satellite provider, since CC can not get you a straight answer. I'd be tired of waiting also.
