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join:2006-12-29
Corona, CA | reply to phattieg
Re: Sucks for them 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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