I’ve put down a deposit on an apartment back in my former stompin’ grounds of Belltown. It’s large, moderately priced, close to everything, and has tall ceilings and a great view.

It’s also got Millennium Digital Media, Seattle’s “other” cable company. It’s the successor to Summit Cable, which was formed in the late ’80s to bid on a service area consisting of neighborhoods neglected by the two other cable providers here at the time. Those other two firms since merged and are now Comcast.

These days, Millennium offers a similar group of packages to Comcast’s, including broadband Internet and (soon) phone service. But its digital cable tiers are a bit paltry in comparison to the hunkin heap o’ pixels Comcast throws at ya. Here are some of the digital and/or basic channels Comcast offers but Millennium doesn’t (and which I’ve watched at least once so far this year):

• Wisdom
• Trio
• BET On Jazz
• Turner Classic Movies
• Ovation
• Newsworld International
• Oxygen
• Fox Movie Channel
• American Life (formerly Goodlife)
• TV5 (French)
• RAI (Italian)
• KCTS Plus

In addition, you can only get the Sundance Channel on Millennium if you buy Showtime.

Then there’s the whole On Demand thang, which is vast on Comcast and as yet nonextant on Millennium.

Yes, I’m feeling buyer’s remorse. Can ya tell?