The only way you can get the Digital Signal & have a good picture is if you buy a TV with built-in QAM tuner, which allows you to connect your in-coming cable(digital) to the back of the TV, without the need for a set-top box.ut your TV has no idea what to do with them. Your TV is analog only-it can display unscrambled analog channels over the raw cable, but that's it. So you need the cable company's box to decode and unscramble the digital signals.
Panic not a cause: Scintillating scotomas are most commonly caused by cortical spreading depression, a pattern of changes in the behavior of nerves in the brain during a migraine. Panic is not on the list of causes on any source i found. The first sentence is from the wikipedia article on scintillating scotomata.
Myopic foveoschisis also referred to as myopic traction maculopathy or myopic macular schisis is one of the major causes of visual loss in highly myopic eyes. It is characterized by schisis-like splitting of the retinal layers in the macula in an area of posterior staphyloma.