RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to Steve Mehs
Re: WOW You're certainly entitled to that opinion. The insults, however, blow your argument. The majority of cable customers just want to watch TV, not be a "high end subscriber" sending $150 or more each month to the cable company. If they weren't making money hand over fist (remember those obscene profit numbers from a couple months back?) from those low-cost analog customers they'd have pulled the plug years ago.
If they really want everyone off analog, cough up the box for free. It'll cost them less than the daily "triple play" flier I get in the mail, and they can write the whole thing off of their tax on that obscene profit, maybe even get a tax credit for keeping granny in touch with All My Children.
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| What argument? I'm just staing my opinion. I’ve seen many of your posts which can be summed up with the words 'Cable Sucks'. I’m not playing your game.
Why should Comcast provide a box for free? They don’t get the boxes for free from Motorola or Scientific Atlanta. Comcast is a company, they are supposed to make money, they’re not a charity. When I left cable in 1998 for Dish Network, it cost us over $700 for a two room set up, with the most basic receivers around. Should I’ve gotten that for free? No. Hardware costs money, the installers have to get paid, 1998 was still relatively early on in the satellite TV world so prices were higher. In 2004, when I left Dish Network for DirecTV, I believe we paid $200 for hardware and installation. Should I’ve gotten that for free? No. Both satellite providers FORCE you to buy hardware or now lease it and you pay extra for each additional receiver beyond the first. I don’t see why cable should be different.
For Triple Play Subscribers, Time Warner doesn’t charge extra for the first digital terminal.
BTW - There is no such thing as an 'obscene profit'. Captialism is a beautiful thing, and there is not one CEO in this country who doesn't deserve what they make.
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