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| Boot Em? Comcast stock reflects has worthless the company is, regardless of what CEO they have.
Comcast and the other cable/satellite monopolists HAVE THE POWER to take on the content-provider lobby on behalf of their subscribers, and by doing so, deliver us ala-carte pricing.
But instead, they lazily fall back to their typical cable-company habits, and decide they'll just stick it to us, because we have no other choice. They'll brag about offering us so-called phone service and dysfunctional DVRs, but primarily, they'll focus on reaming us with "digital tiers" and other such crap.
Their margins reflect their unwillingness to provide value to the customer. As a result, nearly every one of my peers has disconnected cable TV for years, in favor of Netflix, the library, and rabbit ears.
We'll gladly sign up anew, when they offer us ala carte, and the STB is something other than that Moto POS. I don't think we'll ever have any interest in their VOIP product, since they already can't make the cable-modem work for more than 3 hours at a time. | | |
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA Reviews:
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| said by Cable Me This :
Their margins reflect their unwillingness to provide value to the customer. As a result, nearly every one of my peers has disconnected cable TV for years, in favor of Netflix, the library, and rabbit ears. What's interesting is the mandate to be able to receive OTA ATSC will cause the unwashed masses to realize rather immediately that they can receive HD (as well as SD) via OTA (after the initial fast and simple learning curve). This will cause a resurge in various cousins to "rabbit ears", as you so put it.
Regarding Motorola: I am suspicious of your anti-Motorola stance. Certainly, Motorola has been laggard, but to dump it for Asian companies seems suicidal; asians can't program user interfaces in ways that Americans can understand how to navigate. I don't know if that's because American companies are cripling the user interfaces or not (or even cripling more than just the interfaces), and the language and time zone differences make it impossible to keep quality; one recent example of an asian product that actually does have decent user interface (unlike all of its carrier's peer products) is Sony's Walkman W810i telephone sold by AT&T (the only decent interface of all the AT&T phones), so perhaps that asian thing may be the wrong reason. But only having 4 box suppliers is just a really bad idea. | |
| Moto used to be the standard-bearer for quality, right next to another company whose initials were said to stand for "High Price". One used to be to able to drop a piece of Moto gear off the second floor, dust it off, and go back to work.
Enter the "digital" cable-tv era. We get the equivalent of a toaster-oven sitting on top of the set, which can't render a decent picture or change channels in less than 5 seconds. Don't get me started on their cellphone performance.
I don't believe that "American" designs are any less baffling than European or Asian equivalents. Time Zones are not the issue either, its a question of budgeting product testing with real users, where some western firms MIGHT have a slight edge, though not in my experience.
As for your Walkman phone, my hunch is that it was designed by Ericsson.
I've purchased well in excess of $100K worth of Moto gear.
There is nothing to suspect. As a potential cable customer, however, I usually have no choice as to what crap STB I receive. | |
Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA | I know you're right. | |
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