CableTool
Poorly Representing MYSELF.
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join:2004-11-12 | 2009.
I have a feeling in 2009 Comcast and most every MSO will see RECORD basic sub gains.
Hang in there kitty.
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MrMoody
Beleaguered Middle Class
join:2002-09-03
Smithfield, NC
 ·Embarq
| said by CableTool  :I have a feeling in 2009 Comcast and most every MSO will see RECORD basic sub gains. I don't agree, want to bet?
Pretend I'm a senior citizen on social security who watches game shows and soap operas all day on my rabbit ears. Most people who will be affected by the cutoff fall in this type of category.
It's February 2009 and my TV stations sign off for good. Even if I haven't paid any attention to all the ads that have been running for a year, I can ask my grandson or the nerd next door what to do, and he will give me the same three options: get a new TV, get cable/satellite or buy a converter box ($40 off with gubmint coupon). So if I have some money I can buy a shiny new TV or if I don't have much I can spend about $20-$40 once and get back what I had, or start paying the cable company $40+ per month. Which do you think I will choose?
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CableTool
Poorly Representing MYSELF.
Premium
join:2004-11-12
| said by MrMoody :said by CableTool :I have a feeling in 2009 Comcast and most every MSO will see RECORD basic sub gains. I don't agree, want to bet? Pretend I'm a senior citizen on social security who watches game shows and soap operas all day on my rabbit ears. Most people who will be affected by the cutoff fall in this type of category. It's February 2009 and my TV stations sign off for good. Even if I haven't paid any attention to all the ads that have been running for a year, I can ask my grandson or the nerd next door what to do, and he will give me the same three options: get a new TV, get cable/satellite or buy a converter box ($40 off with gubmint coupon). So if I have some money I can buy a shiny new TV or if I don't have much I can spend about $20-$40 once and get back what I had, or start paying the cable company $40+ per month. Which do you think I will choose? Ill bookmark this and collect when first quarter of 09 posts record gains.
Your pretend senior citizen isnt the target market then. The further on the year goes the more questions we get about the transition. Our answer? IF you have cable or sattelite your fine. Since we are in their home, and they have one or the other.
Thats the main message, thats the message on the commercials. Thats in everyones head.
Lets take your pretend senior citizen and pretend he cant stand to have a box on his tv that he has to learn and screw with and work the remote. Lets pretend he has 4 tvs in his house.
Install cable, use your tvs as you always have. Not to mention whatever cable ready promos will be rolled out just for this reason.
Then take your Dish subs who have 5 tvs and 3 boxes with antennae on the others, take your CDV and HSI only subs who already have the product in their home but use antennae because they do not watch tv much....
Some 80 year old guy on a fixed income wont make the numbers... its everyone else that will look to cable.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| The problem? Cable wants to eliminate analog over time as well, and SDV systems are already being deployed in a few places. Cable can't really go around advertising that advantage heavily when they want to eliminate it themselves. Otherwise, all those new customers will disappear by 2011 when the big cablecos start killing off analog. |
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
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·SONIC.NET
| Oh jesus. You probably have real information, which means 5 more years of this (high bandwidth K & C channel) crap. Ugh. !@#$*&*(@*#$&
K & C is what I use to refer to the local broadcast channels (KXXX) and C for all the "Community" (if you don't like that word, you can always substitute "Communist") channels, which always (almost 100%) start with the letter C, and are usually must-carries, and Comcast has chosen to still carry as analog (even though they could easily strong-muscle out of analog entirely if they wanted to, but as you pointed out, probably won't for a long, long time). |
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