 ColorBASIC8-bit FunPremium
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Corona, CA
1 edit | Sucks for them Some of those TWC customers can look forward to an even bigger "How dare you not have our crap CATV?!?" penalty.
But if it's any solace, Comcast says you can avoid the massive increase if you start buying their overpriced garbage CATV service. Then they'll make you feel better by calling your now doubled bill a discount.
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Valencia, CA | Yup - say good bye to CATV as you know it.
When Comcast was here in Valencia, they would not sell me the 'basic' 13 package (available on their web site)for ~$14/month, but would sell the $50.40 version of analog.  |
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said by ColorBASIC:Some of those TWC customers can look forward to an even bigger "How dare you not have our crap CATV?!?" penalty. But if it's any solace, Comcast says you can avoid the massive increase if you start buying their overpriced garbage CATV service. Then they'll make you feel better by calling your now doubled bill a discount. you mean the discount people get for having more than 1 service? |
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ColorBASIC8-bit FunPremium
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Corona, CA
3 edits | No, I mean the penalty people get for refusing to buy other overpriced crap services.
I had ATTBi, then many many many months AFTER Comcast took over I suddenly and without notice got a 30% price increase. Those who had their overpriced CATV just kept paying the SAME rate we all had before. Their "discount" was merely the addition of a line of their bill saying they were getting a discount. Wow, some discount.
Avoidance of an increase isn't a discount. |
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said by ColorBASIC:Some of those TWC customers can look forward to an even bigger "How dare you not have our crap CATV?!?" penalty. But if it's any solace, Comcast says you can avoid the massive increase if you start buying their overpriced garbage CATV service. Then they'll make you feel better by calling your now doubled bill a discount. Thats funny you say that, because consistently over the last 6 months I have heard DirecTV customers complain that their rates have increased to the point that it's useless to keep them if we cost the same... I am not making this up, but it's ironic that they charge near the same price for the same stuff, minus Video On Demand... I guess you could say the same about AT&T and their "forced bundle" of landline and DSL. And if you get a dry loop, you really aren't saving money there either, because it costs about the same... But oh well...
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ColorBASIC8-bit FunPremium
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Corona, CA | I don't doubt it. E* has been taking consistent increases to. And this is only a recent trend. Both E* and D* went years and years and years without an increase and suddenly they have Cableitis and take increases every year.
As far as DBS, vs FiOS, vs CATV it typically comes down the HW costs because the programming is generally within $15 of each other.
If I had a single SD TV, FiOS was the steal of the century, way cheaper than both Time Warner and E*. Only after tacking on 2 HD-DVRs did my FiOS quote go through the roof. I got similar price quotes from Time Warner, again only because of the DVR costs. Where E* got cheap for me was that I got one of my E* dual tuner HD DVRs as part of my lease, another pretty cheap on eBay and that they charge only $6 in DVR fees which cover all the DVRs on the account. It also saved me money that the E* DVRs I have include an output that can go to another TV (sharing the DVR features and one of the tuners) which saves me having to rent 2 additional tuners.
There is definitely no "cheapest provider" for everyone.
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I feel sorry for Houstonians, Comcast was recently (in last year) run outta Dallas for not paying the franchise fees and taxes to the city. Not to mention the misrepresentation of services i.e. Digital Cable TV when they don't re-broadcast any of the analog channels in digital, those channels are still delivered with the same crappy analog signal. I get free basic cable here and many of the channels are just plain unwatchable. Thank God for DirecTV and AT&T/SBC-DSL |
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