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| new e$pn? A cable bill for a family of 4 assuming your renting 4-5 cable boxes is about $75-100 per month (one in each bedroom & a living room - typical). That's not adding in internet or phone service. Consider also that these companies get millions of subscribers versus the original content they provide. Recycled content costs virtually nothing to provide aside from minimal royalties. Many channels are pumped with infomercial steriods and they want 22-36% increases for that garbage? Hah! Good luck with that... It'll probably amount to $5-10 increase in addition to the increases the cable companies already jacked you up for.. so, consider cancelling (and getting your video from alternative sources) upon new increases for the new year. | |
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 | | Re: new e$pn? And this is why cable TV costs so much. The content providers charge an arm & a leg for their bundled pkgs. And they can depend on the customers calling TWC & BrightHouse demanding the cable providers pay whatever Viacom is demanding. And if TWC cuts off the channels anyway, then they will be calling their congresscritter complaining.
Yet these same people will whine about their next cable TV price hikes.
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 | Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Re: new e$pn? While I would agree that this is a little like blackmail(Viacom's actions), why does TW think they have any right to the online profits of Viacom? | |
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| | RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | Re: new e$pn? For the same reason Viacom thinks they have any right to fees paid by cable customers who never watch any of Viacom's channels.
The only solution to this is to...
...cut...
...the...
...cable.
But it's funny watching both camps of thieves trying to eat each other...
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| | |  Combat ChuckToo Many CannibalsPremium
join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA | Re: new e$pn? said by RadioDoc:The only solution to this is to... ...cut... ...the... ...cable. The solution is to
...stop...
...watching...
...so much...
...TV...
Seriously turn your brain back on and go do something else. Go read a book, play a video game, go outside...something. Watching television is probably the biggest waste of time ever and it puts your brain into a self induced coma and everyone watches gobs of it.
And good lord if you have one converter for every member of your family you really need help.
Fahrenheit 451 anyone?
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join:2003-01-21
Seattle, WA | Re: new e$pn? Yeah, there are some Amish folk in Nebraska who think that you too are a brainless boob for having and utilizing internet access. | |
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join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA | Re: new e$pn? said by SlickEnW:Yeah, there are some Amish folk in Nebraska who think that you too are a brainless boob for having and utilizing internet access. So you are honestly going to take the stand that passively watching TV is helpful to the human mind?
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