Technogeez
Misanthropic curmudgeon
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Re: public access
No public access? I get the city council channel, the county commissioner channel, a local science channel, two PBS stations, a local Spanish language channel... the only thing FiOS doesn't give me that cable did is a 24-hour local news channel.
Not robust? All the nationals, all the locals, many in HD and with SD picture quality that looks better than the HD on BriteHouse.
I'm sorry you didn't like it, but I don't have a problem with FiOS.
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| said by Technogeez  :No public access? I get the city council channel, the county commissioner channel, a local science channel, two PBS stations, a local Spanish language channel... the only thing FiOS doesn't give me that cable did is a 24-hour local news channel. Not robust? All the nationals, all the locals, many in HD and with SD picture quality that looks better than the HD on BriteHouse. I'm sorry you didn't like it, but I don't have a problem with FiOS. BB & YMMV... acronyms to know.. Buyer beware & Your Mileage May Vary.. One thing is for sure, the FIOS experience is not homogeneous across the footprint. I say buyer beware because Verizon and many other companies really make it tough for you to cancel service once you subscribe to it. I had some billing issues and nonsense when I canceled.. so maybe Verizon is doing right by a certain segment of the FIOS customer base.. but I don't have enough information to say whether this is a majority or minority case.. but seeing as Verizon more closely monitors these forums; extremely negative comments seem to get swatted down more aggressively than in the past. Who knows what that means.. (Comcast & Cablevision are also known to troll for comments that seem to cost them customers) Fortunately, I tolerate no crap especially because I know what I'm talking about am not a newbie in all things telecom. Even though my screen name says my account is from 2004.. I've been on this forum when it was in its infancy around 1997. |
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jbgroup1
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Beltsville, MD
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May 17th, @10:18AM
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said by Technogeez :No public access? I get the city council channel, the county commissioner channel, a local science channel, two PBS stations, a local Spanish language channel... the only thing FiOS doesn't give me that cable did is a 24-hour local news channel. Not robust? All the nationals, all the locals, many in HD and with SD picture quality that looks better than the HD on BriteHouse. I'm sorry you didn't like it, but I don't have a problem with FiOS. Actually those are PEG (without the "P") channels not public access. Public access channels are channels that have citizen produced content. On Comcast's public access channel (channel 80 here) there were actually many infomercials but also some citizen produced content. Some were good and some were bad but many were somewhat entertaining nonetheless. I actually liked the commercials (most were for products or services that were made by some small businesses) and were not of the quality of the more professional infomercials. I actually found many of them funny and laughed while they were on.
Here in Prince George's County Verizon does not have a public access channel.
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Technogeez
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| I get the difference, but the key word is "public." If a citizen wants to be on TV, they can go to the council meeting and complain about something on camera. As for the "Wayne's World" channels, we're lucky to NOT have that level of programming...
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