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 kyler13Is your fiber grounded?
join:2006-12-12
Arnold, MD | reply to GlennAllen
Re: Compare.... Now try comparing apples to apples.
Comcast Digital Plus gives you a base movie package (Encore) and a digital box. FIOS TV is still cheaper, but once you equate the services by adding on the FIOS a la carte items, it's alot closer than the $27 spread you suggest. The problem with FIOS is that with pay channels and multiple TVs, it costs more than Comcast. Comcast is the better deal if you have >3 TVs in the house, IMO. Things will change, though, when analog goes away. | | |
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| If, if,... if, which is why "general" comparisons are never "perfect", hence YMMV is always the case. Myself? One TV. Comcast doesn't compare favorably with anyone on price and performance regarding any of their services [for me], which doesn't mean much if Comcast is the only provider in one's service area. I'm lucky; I've got a plethora of providers in my area. Yep, throw in the "a la carte items" (Encore and Showtime and Starz and an HD DVR from Vz), and the price differential is smaller, but still enough to give Vz the edge by an easy margin... for me.
So, yeah, I don't disagree with anything you've said (except a larger apple vs a smaller apple is still "apples to apples", worms and all). | |
 HealbotPremium
join:2003-07-16
Vancouver, WA | reply to kyler13
said by kyler13:Now try comparing apples to apples. Comcast Digital Plus gives you a base movie package (Encore) and a digital box. FIOS TV is still cheaper, but once you equate the services by adding on the FIOS a la carte items, it's alot closer than the $27 spread you suggest. The problem with FIOS is that with pay channels and multiple TVs, it costs more than Comcast. Comcast is the better deal if you have >3 TVs in the house, IMO. Things will change, though, when analog goes away. Im not sure but I think Digital Classic (I had it before I upgraded) had encore movie channels, then I upgraded the step above to get one of the top movie channel packages (Showtime, HBO, MAX, etc) | |
| It's Digital Plus that has the Encore channels. The Verizon movie package ($13) has Encore, Starz, and Showtime (which includes TMC, and Flix), plus Sundance--45 channels altogether (and, yes, some are just east coast/west coast versions of each other separated by 3 hrs, but I've actually found that to be useful sometimes). Digital Classic does have Flix.
Basically, they (both Comcast and Verizon, or anyone) don't really try to make it terribly easy to do a channel for channel comparison. Anyway, to each his/her own. Expect packages and prices to change as it suits either company. | |
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