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| Cable/DirecTV/Dish Network... they're all about the same = MONOPOLY in fixing the prices. Yes you can switch and get a deal for that first year, but after that, they're all the about the same on rates.
What's curious is the 2 YEAR COMMITTMENT/TERMINATION FEES all these programing Clowns want when you sign on... we know the RULING Against CELLUAR phone companies last week by the California Courts about the 2 year committment/termination fee crap. I wonder how fast it will roll over to video?
When that's the case for DirecTV, I terminating immediately... WE and the NEIGHBORS are tired of DirecTV's ALPHA/BETA testing of their OWN boxes. (They GOT GREEDY, dumped all the 3rd party SAT BOX vendors and did their own GARBAGE) DirecTV's new boxes are GARBAGE, their DVR is junk... boy I miss TIVO.
But the limitations on bandwidth useage sucks... becaus eit was going to be my options for HD/BlueRay programming.
Frontier Net and DirecTV SUCK! | |
| said by NRO specialist :
MONOPOLY in fixing the prices. Yes you can switch and get a deal for that first year, but after that, they're all the about the same on rates.
What's curious is the 2 YEAR COMMITTMENT/TERMINATION FEES all these programing Clowns want when you sign on... we know the RULING Against CELLUAR phone companies last week by the California Courts about the 2 year committment/termination fee crap. I wonder how fast it will roll over to video?
When that's the case for DirecTV, I terminating immediately... WE and the NEIGHBORS are tired of DirecTV's ALPHA/BETA testing of their OWN boxes. (They GOT GREEDY, dumped all the 3rd party SAT BOX vendors and did their own GARBAGE) DirecTV's new boxes are GARBAGE, their DVR is junk... boy I miss TIVO.
But the limitations on bandwidth useage sucks... becaus eit was going to be my options for HD/BlueRay programming.
Frontier Net and DirecTV SUCK!
Funny you should mention that as it was the satellite providers that started that. Back when I had DirecTV in the early 90s you had to pay for the equipment yourself and I think it was about $1200 I had to pay at Sears to get a Dual LNB Sony Dish and two Sony receivers (one SAT-A1 and one SAT-B1 if I remember right, the A1 had an RF remote) plus my programming and you only got a break cost wise if you paid for 11 months up front you would get the 12 month free. Well what happened after a couple of years they were hitting a wall subscriber wise as most people didn't want to dish out a couple hundred dollars per set to hook them up nor pay nearly a $1,000 up front for programming. So they needed to subsidize the equipment...once that happens you need to enter into agreements just so you can make sure that you are at least breaking even at the end of the term. In fact, I was a cable subscriber from 1984-1991 and again after 2001 and I was a month to month subscriber until I signed up for the Premier Triple Play bundle from Comcast last fall. You can't expect something for nothing...if you want a cheap rate, they need to know you will be a customer for 24 months...no one is forcing you to take the bundle price...they would be more than happy to sell you Video, Voice, and Data month to month at full price.
Same thing with Cellular....you want month to month, pay full price for the phone. | | |
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| Everything NEW has an OVER-INFLATED price. I'm STILL trying to figure out... when did ALPHA & BETA tester have to pay to use a product. That was the main purpose of the post, though to inform the others... DirecTV did buyout replay TV in mid December, they needed someone/company to fix their DVR functionality, especially since DirecTV told TIVO to take a Hike.
I myself had done the installs on the chimeys on the block here... DirecTV no longer will mount on them with the larger Sat size/weight. Of course I did the alignments and adjustments... no biggy for me... but for the Poe Folk that get soaked by these contracted installers and DirecTV double billing scams, that's what sux.
The HW stuff is ALL over inflated in price... ALL of IT.
that's why you see people buying dish/receievers and mobile phones off the net. But DirecTV even nails yah on that with a manatory NEW SAT card... how much for that 16K EEPROM card worth $.05 = $75 The other is problem are channels that used to be part of a $9.95 package are now a new Premium HD package channel fee. Oh, wouldn't that void their BS contract, taking away channels you once had? That's like paying for the HBO channels and they take half of them away, but you can have them back for $5-10 more. Just another way to price increases, without actually raising the general monthly fee price.
Oh, don't forget, the new (you have only this choice, ONE RECEIVER) H21 is the newest, but lacks an ATSC tuner as the H20s and ALL prior receivers had installed. Meaning, you cannot pickup Locally transmitted Digital broadcast TV/Radio. Another feature lost, especially when you have a choice of selecting 720P or 1080i over DTV's compressed version which also commercially controls those 4-5 channels they provide. Customer looses again.
DTV is a major Corporate Conglomerate who's curent earnings are over $17 BILLION... they have never lost money, even with the new high bandwidth (HDTV) sat prices. They're making bank even in a recession, but we shall see in this declining economy...
They question should be... How much is ENOUGH? How much CONTROL must one have in the MEDIA Distribution market?
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