tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| cancel cable tv
get rid of cable tv from every service provider.. it's 40% commercials, and 60% aggravation.. i seldom bother to watch cnn anymore as well because of all the drug ads and nonsense advertisements. cnn has become the mtv of news, so why pay for it anymore, screw them... if that's the "best, most trusted name in news" then news has gone to the toilet.
now the rest of you need to line up and say "i'm fed up and i'm not going to pay for it anymore".. come on, it's easy.. with $4 gasoline, your bound to be looking to cut expenses anyway.. so do it on the backs of comcast and others by canceling the tv service. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | Why? |
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espaeth
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said by tmc8080  :get rid of cable tv from every service provider.. it's 40% commercials, and 60% aggravation.. 3 words: Digital Video Recorder.
98% enjoyment, 2% commercial-skipping aggravation. |
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
Premium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA | reply to openbox9
said by openbox9 :Why? here we go |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | Where? |
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rid0617
join:2003-07-20
Greer, SC
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I did the same thing. Was with directv from 1995 to 2008 and have not regretted it. Got tired of paying $50+ to watch non stop commercials and stupidity. I emailed my local NBC affiliate and told them I was going to finally follow their go green brainwashing and shut off the cable. The less TV I watched the smaller my footprint and I would see more green in my pocket canceling directv.
Then told directv since they wanted their customer service in India and the Phillipines they needed to get their customers there too. It's nice to have $50 more dollars to offset what all is going up. They've been begging hard for me to come back. |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| reply to espaeth
said by espaeth :said by tmc8080 :get rid of cable tv from every service provider.. it's 40% commercials, and 60% aggravation.. 3 words: Digital Video Recorder. 98% enjoyment, 2% commercial-skipping aggravation. if you look at the trend this past decade with the music and phone industries.. the rest of the entertainment industry is overdue for a revolution in the ways we get video programming. this will mostly affect cable companies to the extent that they raise prices and offer less value than the competition which is mostly a bottomless pit and free or much lower cost than mainstream cable.
bittorrent is 100% sticking it to the entertainment, broadcast, and cable industries, and 0% pay. these industries do not fight hard enough for our money and take it for granted, in much the same way POTS telecom carriers took for granted the ever rising surcharges that litter customers phone bills. voip changed the game and telecom is now back in the hands of consumers. even if you wanted to steer clear of copyright violations, there is a market for your money with on-demand (95% sticking it to them 5% pay).. you just need a dvr that can accept video via ethernet or wifi. this is primarily why cable companies have been very hesitant to start a broadband war with telcos using docsis 3. once the spigot is opened.. what's to prevent customers from canceling tv subscriptions? not much.
like it or not, this trend is here to stay. |
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