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Evanston, IL | No more analog? Please don't end analog broadcasts! | |
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join:2000-05-11 | Re: No more analog? Prepare to be bent over. It's all about those extra cable box rental fees, whether they'll admit or not.
If it weren't they'd be giving you a CableCARD or set top box for each set free of monthly charges and installation fees. You know when that'll happen... 
Vote with your wallet.
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| Re: No more analog? said by RadioDoc:Prepare to be bent over. It's all about those extra cable box rental fees, whether they'll admit or not. I tried to plug my satellite into my TV and it didn't work. odd... Hmmm... I then bought a DirecTivo box and now get charged an additional $5/month for it... Not sure why I have to pay that, but I that is the price I need to pay.
I seem to think Verizon FiOS TV has a similar model...
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| | reub2000Premium
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Evanston, IL | Re: No more analog? quote:
I tried to plug my satellite into my TV and it didn't work. odd... Hmmm... I then bought a DirecTivo box and now get charged an additional $5/month for it... Not sure why I have to pay that, but I that is the price I need to pay.
Also, try plugging it into a WinTV PVR-250 tuner card, without using some IR blaster to change the channel. I once had digital cable, and it took so long to simply change the channel. And it had these menus where half the screen was advertisements. I want to stick to analog cable. Hopefully these "upgrades" are just for Chicago and won't affect the suburbs.
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| | RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | This is not about satellite TV or TiVo or FiOS. It's about televisions currently connected directly to cable TV, you know, those "cable ready" TVs you may have heard about? The TVs that don't need any box to pick up cable right now? The ones Comcast will be charging box rental for merely because they feel like it now?
Unless, of course, you managed to pick up satellite TV with no other hardware but a television and then DirecTV decided you need a receiver after the fact.
Maybe you should "stick" your comment.
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| | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Re: No more analog? And so says DOC that because something is the way it is now that it should remain that way forever.. if it were up to you, should we still have support for Windows 95?
SO WHAT!?! So what if people have to rent boxes.. time are changing. I'm staring to believe you are a socialist, bunny. I'm also beginning to believe that you don't think technology should advance at all either!
I know you are SOOOO anti business based on your posts that you think no one should be able to turn a profit. Maybe you should look at your own business and cut back all your profit too.
News flash, not everyone has to be a charity... and television STILL isn't a right.. it's a luxury. OTA TV is still free.
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| | |  PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | We all "know" what this is about. Devnuller was making an "analogy". That is when you compare one thing to something else to highlight a similarity.
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| fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Would that be the same free boxes that satellite gives you for all your televisions in your home?
I think people DO vote with their wallets.. that's one reason more people still have cable in their home than satellite. Cable has been giving basic 1/2 on extra sets.. however, people like you think cable is a funded utility that should not only provide the equipment per TV, you probably believe that they shouldn't charge the $18.50 to install the line too, right?
Satellite is a GREAT alternative! $5.00 per extra TV you view AND (in most cases) YOU get to purchase the equipment too! .. and service it!
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| | reub2000Premium
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Evanston, IL | Re: No more analog? I like CATV because it's just an NTSC signal going through a coaxial cable. No extra box taking up space under my TV. Not another device to turn on to watch TV. Not another remote to lose. If they drop the analog, then what reason would I have for staying with cable TV?
Couldn't they have at least have sent an ATSC signal over their coaxial cable?
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| | | PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | Re: No more analog? said by reub2000:Couldn't they have at least have sent an ATSC signal over their coaxial cable? Grand idea. If they would, I'd even consider getting cable for HD. Two reasons why they won't, however:
1) No on screen advertising - OOPS I mean program guide.
2) HDTVs, specifically those with built-in ATSC tuners (less expensive models don't have ATSC tuners, just HD inputs), just aren't quite that common... yet.
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1 edit | said by fiberguy:Would that be the same free boxes that satellite gives you for all your televisions in your home? We're talking about Comcast changing the purchased product in mid-stream here and requiring a significant monthly outlay which amounts to about a 28% rate increase (($5 x 3)/$52.49 ) for those on "standard cable" with four television devices if the first box is indeed "free". Even more for those on basic: (($5 x 3)/$17.74) which is an 84.45% increase!
Let's say the customer already has a digital package which we all know has an abundance of NTSC channels in it. Those folks, who may have one cable box for the "digital" stuff but still use analog on other devices like VCRs or DVRs (or even the kitchen TV) will be paying more too, and that kitchen TV won't work at all.
You keep trotting out the same old lame old tripe every time anyone dares challenge this marketing decision (and yes, it's a marketing decision).
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| | | reub2000Premium
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Evanston, IL | Re: No more analog? I would have no issue if they made a PCI Tuner card, and released a linux driver under the GPL. (Or handed over the needed information to someone willing to write a driver.) But they aren't doing this. In order for digital cable to work with a recording device, you need an IR transmitter just to change the channel.
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1 edit | Re: No more analog? This is a de facto price increase, and a very large one. Refute that.
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