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Re: What Ever Happen To Cable-Ready Television? said by crginc:The advantage cable alway had was one could buy a cable ready set and plug it into any outlet in the house. They way the cable industry is going with encripted basic channels etc. They are loosing homes to satellite. There is isn't much difference. Both require boxes on every TV. When I moved into my home a couple of years ago evenbody in the neighborhood was on cable. Now almost every other home as a satellite antenna on the roof. Good luck cable. You will need it. even back then if you wanted a ppv you need a box or HBO, SHOW, MAX, STARS, needed a box in some systems. | |
| said by Joe12345678:said by crginc:The advantage cable alway had was one could buy a cable ready set and plug it into any outlet in the house. They way the cable industry is going with encripted basic channels etc. They are loosing homes to satellite. There is isn't much difference. Both require boxes on every TV. When I moved into my home a couple of years ago evenbody in the neighborhood was on cable. Now almost every other home as a satellite antenna on the roof. Good luck cable. You will need it. even back then if you wanted a ppv you need a box or HBO, SHOW, MAX, STARS, needed a box in some systems. i think the point being missed is the huge price increase involved with digital cable on the consumer side, i have 6 tv's each one needs a digital box, $6.95 each per month, $41.70 per month.. my cable was only $50 a month, now, it's $91.70 just to get the SAME channels i did before.. and there's no way around that.. THAT is what people don't like.. you can't buy anything that don't involve a huge rental fee.. and those cablecard tv's.. try fitting one of those in a bedroom!!.. only the large screen tv's have those!!.. | |
 OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | Actually my cable fees have gone up considerably and the service has declined under the guise of an upgrade. We used to get maybe ~200 channels of analog TV across the raw feed without a cable box. So ever TV could receive a very rich channel lineup. RCN under “Analog Crush” has done away with analog altogether so this is no longer possible. If that’s not bad enough, we used to get about ~$140+ Clear QAM channels with a nice smattering of HD channels of which included “The National Geographic Channel HD” TBS-HD, TNT-HD, SNY-HD and more now we essentially only receive the local channels via Clear QAM but we also get about 30 or so “Digital Audio Services” of pure commercial free (DRM free) music.
All while they have doubled the basic rate.
I’m tempted to just drop them to tell you the truth. Since we get cable internet we could still receive Clear QAM at no charge but I don’t want to do that. I could also pay 1/3 of what I am paying now for one yr if I switch to another cable provider’s internet service. | |
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