New Cable TV converter protocol

I'm not sure its fair to blame the KOA for a situation the cable company created. The cable systems are moving to a setup where everyone will need a box of some sort to receive anything. The best a CG can do is to provide a bunch of loaner boxes and hope they get them back. Recently my golf course which had about 10 TV's being driven by basic cable had to get 10 boxes from the provider just to continue to get the golf channel. PIA to say the least. They didn't work real well so they switched to sat which of course resulted in 10 different boxes.

I hope at some point we can buy "Cable Ready" TV's once again where the conversion is done in the TV.