Re: OT - Off-Topic - Re: HDTV signal options.

Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:44:00 -0700, Eric \"Shubes\" wrote
>> The only ones that interest me are ESPNHD, TNTHD, and NFLHD (sports)
>> Not worth $180/yr to me (yet).
>
>
> If it was only $180 per year, I would gladly pay that.

I wish that were the total! That's just for the add-on HD package.

> But it is not just $180 per year.
>
> The only way you can get the few channels that are worth watching
> (bundled with an enormous collection of absolute garbage) is to pay
> a *minimum* of $50 per month which is $600 per year! And that is
> ridiculous!
>
> Even at that, one will get only 4 or 5 more HD channels, at the
> most, than are broadcast, and even higher costs than that for any
> more than that.

That's why I'm sticking with broadcast (antenna) for now.

> The crux of the problem is the complete lack of any real free-market
> competition because of the complicity and collusion among the cable
> and sat signal providers to scam the public by not allowing people
> to just choose and pay for ONLY the channels they want.

No doubt.

> The whole box converter thing is a needless scam anyway.
>
> When we first got our new HD in August, we were getting a bunch of
> great, crystal clear, 9x16 HD signals over the same cable that we
> previously had for our old analog TV. But when a couple of those
> channels just disappeared (after Cox took over), I called to find
> out what the problem was and they told me that there never had been
> any such channels as I had been watching for more than a month,
> that it was impossible, there were no such channels. That the
> only way you could get those channels was by getting their box.
>
> Yeah, right, scam artists.
>

You wouldn't be the first person I've known who ditched Cox after they
bought out that other cable provider. That buyout should not have been allowed.

--
-Eric 'shubes'
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