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said by pnh102  :As for public access channels, who really cares about these anyway? I'd rather have my cable provider spend my subscription money on getting more HD channels instead of wasting it on things that most people don't even watch. Your statement is ironic because most people aren't watching HD channels as most people haven't upgraded their televisions to HD or aren't willing to pay for HD service/equipment.
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pnh102
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| said by NetAdmin :Your statement is ironic because most people aren't watching HD channels as most people haven't upgraded their televisions to HD or aren't willing to pay for HD service/equipment. Where's the incentive to upgrade if cable companies are wasting cash on crap like public access instead of more HD channels?
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| said by pnh102 : Where's the incentive to upgrade if cable companies are wasting cash on crap like public access instead of more HD channels? What cash? Cable just provides channel space...any dollars they actually have to spend on public access gets passed right on, and your statement assumes that the companies would spend the little money we're actually talking about on upgrades as opposed to adding to the bottom line.
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said by pnh102 :Where's the incentive to upgrade if cable companies are wasting cash on crap like public access instead of more HD channels? The cost of providing those public access channels is a lot less than most people think. The biggest cost of providing a channel, programming costs, are non-existent with public access channels.
And adding HD channels isn't just as simple as just wanting to add a new channel to the lineup. For example, the source has to broadcast in HD, hence the reason Sci-Fi took so long to be available in HD. If the channels aren't available in HD, no one is getting it.
Whoops, had to fix a typo...
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