said by fuziwuzi :

Show me where I use that term. The last time I really had cable was in 1999, and I dropped it then. I got it again briefly for about 2 months in 2005 before I discovered DTV was cheaper and better. I wouldn't say I'm a cable fanboy at all. In fact, without HD, I think DTV is better than cable. But my problem is the HD. I like it, I want it, and DTV can't deliver a quality picture. So I'm trying someone else. If cable sucks, maybe I'll go back to DTV. Hardly a fanboy to do that.

I think any company will use deceptive marketing to its advantage as long as they don't think they will get called to the carpet for it. DTV has yet to deliver its claims. Heck it doesn't even have a deliverable product as of yet, so it's essentially vaporware. Cable certainly has a less expensive (at least to having a sat built and launched) upgrade path to compete right back.

I think Comcast was mad that DTV was already starting in with these commercials but there was no product to compare it to because DTV's product didn't exist yet. While it's nice to inform the public of upcoming worthy upgrades, as a DTV customer for 2 years myself (and about 12 years with my family) that DTV has been promising lots of things for a long time and we are only now just starting to see some of what they promised.

I for one would like to see DTV just shut up and put their money where their mouth is and show us already what's so great up their sleeve.

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