On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:50 -0700, daz wrote:
> Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Josef Lowder wrote:
> >> They all advertise all great come-on deals, but then they
> >> want to add on $10 for this and another $10 for that and
> >> it just goes from bad to worse. Every time I call Qwest,
> >> I get a different story ...
>
> Sadly, I kinda prefer this. I dont use callerID on my land line. Why
> should I have to pay for it? Same with my cable/sat vendor.
I agree on that point, I guess I just never feel that it ends up costing
what I expect it to. Part of that is me listening to the marketing too
much, and part of it is them setting my expectations too low.
> > In my experience, the cable guys still really haven't figured out HD.
> > They have a few channels, but they really need to upgrade their networks
>
> Most sat. companies? They want mucho money for the same thing. I'm not
> going to shell out $500+ for an HD DVR. period. So, the cable
> companies might not have the bandwidth to do it correctly, but they're
> doing it good enough for me.
It really depends on the box, I think in general the sat companies are
only charging for the high end boxes, the HD DVRs and some of the DVRs.
If you go through CostCo I think you can get a DVR for free (last time I
checked). The reality is that HD is still a high end product, someone
who pays $5K for the TV is usually willing to pay $500 for the box.
Over time that'll change. It looks like TVs will be starting to get
affordable this holiday season.
--Ted
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