Time Warner Cable Cripples TiVO, Gets FCC Fine > one more way.

reply to hayabusa3303

Re: one more way.

Per tv fees added to your already high monthly rate.

They haven't raised my rates... In fact, I just got ~20 new HD channels thanks to SDV.

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reply to tiger72

decades??? wow. but back to reality. I suppose you're one of those people that believe that once you have something, it should always remain the same, right?

Then why not migrate back from digital cable and go back to standard 30 channel analog fed from microwave towers, poor picture quality, and all the rest that came with it.. I mean, why change as you said, right?

And, to correct the record, "for decades" it was never 'all the televisions you could hook up' for free.. if you recall, they charged per outlet until 1996 when the law changed..

TWC doesn't cut people off for months. At least 3 months.
As for cable boxes - if you don't like it, DONT GET IT! Get satellite. If people stopped paying for the boxes, then cable companies would make clear-QAM the new basic cable!

How does that have anything to do with paying for cable boxes? Or anything in the reality-based world for that matter?

Each one of these revenue-raising tactics, taken in a vacuum, is negligible, but as a whole they are a death of a thousand financial cuts. Each one of these rented boxes is revenue (despite what some here will claim) and gets reported as such to prop up the income figures. Don't kid yourself...it's definitely not just about HD channels.

reply to insomniac84
Yea.. that's it.

Now, imagine your service if they had to roll a truck like they did in the past for everything..

Don't let your silliness blind your ability to think clearly. Your entire post was wrong..
When you're cut off now, you lose only the digital tiers in about 95% of all systems.. you still get the 70 channel basic..

care to try that notion again?

Stop being silly.

reply to tiger72
when are you going to learn or get it through your head that there will NEVER be clear QAM digital basic!?

You can't control channel tiers with out security - period! Get your head out of basic analog cable and traps.. those days are over. If you want clear QAM basic, guess what? Expect to pay more, for one, and expect to lose out on the ability to have just a lower tier 1 basic tier for about $10 a month. There's so much more to say but it's not worth it.

reply to tiger72
'wtf are you talking about?

If you don't like paying a box rental fee, then switch to the competitor: Satellite. Or, god forbid, go without cable altogether!"

and WTF are YOU talking about, clueless? Go to satellite to stop paying for a converter rental fee? are you kidding us with this?

Let me educate you here. When the mini-dish service came out, you purchased each and every box for about $200 a piece, sometimes $300 or more for sony. (Go Figure) and then, on TOP of owning your boxes, you got charged $5.00 for outlets 2 and up.. Today, at least you don't have to buy your boxes, somewhat, but you STILL get charged for the $5.00 fee.

Please.. try to make sense.. and if you're going to bitch just to complain, at least admit you don't actually understand the topic at hand.. stop pretending.

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reply to tiger72

so what you're trying to say is this:

1. You MUST have pay TV. OTA is unacceptable.
2. You as an individual have no control over the cost of services.
3. As a people we can do something about the cost of services... but you're not willing to start.

This is why i'm surprised you post in the RR...
If you don't like their services, STOP GIVING THEM MONEY. If that means you go without seeing the latest The Hills episode, then so be it.

I went without cable for 3 years in college because it was a bad value. I got an HDTV, and started watching more TV, so now I have cable because it's worth it for me. In other words, i've practiced what I preached, and I'm more than willing to go back to OTA (and download my shows) if cable raises rates.
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reply to insomniac84

reply to tiger72
It was affordable for me in college because multiple people shared. You can pay one price and split it among multiple tvs. But you lose that ability with encrypted digital. And the worst is that they can easily implement rules on that. They could allow residential houses to add extra boxes for just the rental fee, but force anyone in an apartment to pay full price for each tv. They can deem certain residences as one tv areas. And don't think they won't. They did it for me when I lived in a fraternity. A house of 40 people and they wanted us to pay full price for each cable drop activated. Of course it being analog, their ploy didn't work.

reply to tiger72
You watch The Hills???? Sad....
I love your comment "stop giving them money"
Well what are you supposed to do when you want cable and internet and you have no other choice?

Canceling their service really just screws you over not the cable company. Most people will not cancel, they will just complain because many people do not want to go without cable and internet. When it comes to utilities, we should have government caps in place to prevent these companies from gouging us. Just like with gasoline and electricity, it will take prices that make us poor before we will give them up. Gasoline is getting very close to that and cable companies are on their way.

Just as companies raise rates for TV, they will start download caps and raise rates of your internet.

What if you reach your download cap for the month and you need your "the hills" tv show fix, then you will wish you did not cancel your cable to stick it to the man.
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