Re: How much is expanded basic these days? in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20415706 en Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:16:25 EDT Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:16:25 EDT Re: How much is expanded basic these days? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20417275 anon : at least with comcast if my dct stoped working i have a store to swap it out of or a tech will come out. with dish you pay to have a tech come out to replace it and they dont have stores. also i have comcast expanded basic and it come with a dct and remote for the interactive guide. i also have on demand witch has thousands of show and most are at no cost. you have a dish dual tuner for two tv. to bad you cant record and watch both tvs at the same time. that must suck. i know you want lower price and so do i but i dont want comcast sending thousands of jobs out of the country to get a cheap price like dish does. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20417275 Thu, 01 May 2008 16:13:22 EDT Re: How much is expanded basic these days? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20415706 AtlGuy :
said by HiDesert :

Last I checked the expanded basic... all analog cost over 60 bucks here.
I pay right at $60 for expanded basic. $59, I believe, with all fees and taxes included in that price.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20415706 Thu, 01 May 2008 11:03:18 EDT How much is expanded basic these days? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20415557 anon : Last I checked the expanded basic... all analog cost over 60 bucks here. I have a dish dual tuner for two TV's with over 150 channels for 50 dollars and thats with all the Sirius music stations. CC analog service has no interactive menus, no surround sound.. no nothing with bad ingress interference... at least where I live. As for CC digital services, there not remotely competitive with my dish service IMO. It seems to me that CC is generally pretty busy hooking up customers to their great promos and then loosing many of those same customers when their prices nearly doubles when the promos end. It must cost them a small fortune with all those vans constantly hooking up and disconnecting customers. I think as this economy gets weaker that CC customers will look for alternatives when they keep being hit 1-2 times a year with the comcast hikes.

I know many will defend CC services and say they are competitive. But personally, the picture quality was not there for me. Even with the digital tuners, many of the channels were still analog. The HD tuner had really bad colors as well which was verified by a CC tech at the time. The best tuner I recall was the regular digital receiver. The HD tuner was great for HD and looked like crap for the regular SD channels. I tried a HD DVR and that was DOA and thats when i jumped to dish. If this is any indication of how things are for comcast I can see why they are loosing market share.

I think they need to soften their promo deals and provide an overall lower price on their tier CATV services. As it is, the price shock after the promo is up is insane. Anybody else agree with this?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20415557 Thu, 01 May 2008 10:29:09 EDT