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Comcast subscribers see fee for once-free digital adapters

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Digital adapters, which are needed for older analog TVs, used to be free from Comcast but now are $1.99 a month apiece.

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COURTESY OF COMCAST CORP. Here's an example of a digital transport adapter, a device that helps to provide the digital signal to an older analog TV. Comcast is now charging for the once-free DTAs.

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When Michael Zalokar of Winfield opened his Comcast cable TV bill this week, he suddenly noticed extra charges; two digital adapters, which had been free, now cost $1.99 each. “That bites the wallet,” he said. Like Zalokar, other customers also noticed the additional fee for the digital transport adapter. When we contacted Comcast's Midwest headquarters in Schaumburg, the company said the new charges are justified.