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Re: Idiots! Uhhh... are you referring to recent times or in general? I think it's absolutely abhorrent to say that cable has not improved it's service. Look at all of the choices you have for your viewing pleasure. They could say F*** you to the programmers and have a limited selection (keeping prices low but options even lower), but instead they get as many stations as their bandwidth can carry for their customers. It's never enough, yet "there is never anything good on." They have brought true On Demand to their customers. Would you have thought 20 years ago that you would be able to turn to a channel with a set top converter box and select a TV show or movie of your choice, when you want, and watch it at your own pace? Did you ever think that you could purchase a pay per view movie through your cable box and keep it for 24 hours, watching it as many times as your little heart desires, all through the box? Not too long ago you were told "the installer will be out sometime next Tuesday, so wait for him all day," but now you are given a 2 hour time frame, with a promise that the tech will call you when he is on his way, and an on-time guarantee (at least thats how it is with my cable company). So quit being such a pessimist and acknowledge that cable companies have made huge strides (the same goes for telco's, yet around here people speak of them often).
It's pathetic how much people refuse to accept that cable is better than it used to be. Some people have never even had cable because of something that happened to their parents before they were born, yet they talk about how bad cable is. Some people had a bad experience a decade or 2 ago and refuse to try. Then some people do try, yet they go into it expecting bad things to happen and they dissect and examine everything, creating their own bad experience. You make it what you want... if you go into the situation expecting positive results chances are that you will have a positive experience.
It's a fact that people talk little about positive experiences but talk openly and often about bad experiences. It's natural that a company with millions of customers will have negative feedback. I can assure you that if every customer that had a good experience or a better than bad experience were to get online and blog about it you would spend years reading it all. I challenge you to prove me wrong. |
