bhorow
join:2004-05-17
Forest Hills, NY | CABLE CARDS Everyone is pretty informed about cable cards.
The fact is that its just a consumer disadvantage. You not only loose ppv, and the guide, you also loose with some cable companies. Ability to take polls, and add additional services, view your bill etc. You loose the ability to use On Demand which is a big feature of cable to begin with. Any 2 way interaction is worthless. I understand not wanting to pay rental fees, but at least get a good product.
I always think of cable card as the way to go for the kids television set where all they need to have is nick and toon Disney. Most people should have 1 DVR at least in there home.
Frankly CableCard will be the future. As much as people think its a disadvantage for cable companies. Not having to pay for shipping of heavy boxes and repair reduces the expenses of the cable companies, imagine the warehouses would need to be half the size. Think about the cost of storing 500 cable boxes. vrs 500 Cable cards.
Cable card is just a bad consumer product at this point, but it will improve. |
