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Re: Stupid TiVo Thats the problem, there is regs for cable, but not for satellite. I'll concede about satellite for now, based on the technical aspects of it.
Why should you cancel? The answer is simple. You have seemed to develop the thought that cable TV is necessary for you to live. It isn't. Why should there be these insane regs put on cable companies? They are there own companies that built there own networks...they are out to make a profit. Sure they make a decent one, and why shouldn't they enjoy the fruits of there labor? It's a pretty decent business don't you think? Now because of this you expect the government to step in, mandate another handout and stop the progress of technology??
To borrow a thought from the late Joe Dirt, I hate to tell you, the cable companies arent a charity, maybe one day UNICEF will start offering cable service to your house, until then, tough rocks.
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| Read this article, it explains things better than I can. Basically put though, you wouldn't allow your cable company to force you to rent a computer from them to access the Internet or only allow you to surf with a cable company approved web browser so why should TV be any different (it runs over the same wires)?
The main difference between cable companies and other businesses is that pretty much every cable company started out as a legal monopoly. This was changed in 1996 by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was designed to promote competition in exchange for removing the regulation of cable prices, but until very recently it basically worked in reverse with a lot of small monopolistic cable companies being bought out by larger ones. Most of the remaining cable companies are de facto monopolies. Monopolies are generally not good for consumers.
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