 SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA
1 edit | reply to jvanbrecht
Re: I could care less about the antitrust aspect I'd have HBO & Showtime. Nothing else. But I have neither because Comcast wants to charge me $55/mo. for content I don't want to get those two channels. So Comcast gets $0 from me. And those channels get nothing either - they refuse to sell their current shows online. |
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| We only ever watched 3 channels. The cost from Cablevision is $54 per month, and will go up to $80 per month when they go all-digital.
So I canceled my Cablevision service and they get nothing from me. I guess they'd prefer to get nothing instead of, say, $10 per month for 3 channels.
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| said by Bobcat:We only ever watched 3 channels. The cost from Cablevision is $54 per month, and will go up to $80 per month when they go all-digital. How so? |
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| said by fifty nine:said by Bobcat:We only ever watched 3 channels. The cost from Cablevision is $54 per month, and will go up to $80 per month when they go all-digital. How so? I'd need 3 boxes @ $6.75/mo each, plus Cablevision's hidden "iO Navigation" fee of $5.95/mo.
$54 + $5.95 + 3*$6.75 = $80.20.
I elected to cancel my service entirely, so now I pay Cablevision $0. Dolan can put that in his pipe and smoke it!
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| said by Bobcat:said by fifty nine:said by Bobcat:We only ever watched 3 channels. The cost from Cablevision is $54 per month, and will go up to $80 per month when they go all-digital. How so? I'd need 3 boxes @ $6.75/mo each, plus Cablevision's hidden "iO Navigation" fee of $5.95/mo. $54 + $5.95 + 3*$6.75 = $80.20. I elected to cancel my service entirely, so now I pay Cablevision $0. Dolan can put that in his pipe and smoke it! You do not need cable boxes for digital service. All you need is a TV with a digital tuner that supports QAM. |
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| Oh, his bad. Maybe he should go out and buy 3 new TV's to support this?
By him saying he "needs" 3, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows what he is talking about when it comes to his hardware. |
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said by fifty nine:You do not need cable boxes for digital service. All you need is a TV with a digital tuner that supports QAM. Wrong. With Cablevision, that only gets you the basic cable channels. No CNN, Cartoon Network, Nick, etc, etc. |
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I have to disagree there. In order to get both hbo or showtime would require limited basic and a box. So depending where you are $7.88-$12 for basic service, $15.99 for either premium channel and $1 box fee. Basically $30 to $45 for what you're talking about. |
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SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Not here. Trust me, I woud have done it a long time ago. |
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join:2005-09-28
Dracut, MA | reply to beavercable
not quite, cable companies have to offer a basic(local) package and can ala carte premiums without any requirements other then basic and equipment. on comcast that would be $10-15 for basic, 3 boxes would be about $16 2 premiums $40 if alacarte or $35 if premier/w2prem so around $60-$70. |
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said by Bobcat:said by fifty nine:You do not need cable boxes for digital service. All you need is a TV with a digital tuner that supports QAM. Wrong. With Cablevision, that only gets you the basic cable channels. No CNN, Cartoon Network, Nick, etc, etc. If you have a TV with a cablecard slot, you can use that to unlock the additional channels. |
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said by Skippy25:Oh, his bad. Maybe he should go out and buy 3 new TV's to support this? By him saying he "needs" 3, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows what he is talking about when it comes to his hardware. Nah, I call BS on this one. I was an ex CV subscriber myself and I hooked up additional TVs with no problem and no additional boxes needed. |
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| said by fifty nine:said by Skippy25:Oh, his bad. Maybe he should go out and buy 3 new TV's to support this? By him saying he "needs" 3, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows what he is talking about when it comes to his hardware. Nah, I call BS on this one. I was an ex CV subscriber myself and I hooked up additional TVs with no problem and no additional boxes needed. I'm not sure what you're referring to, but CV's Family Cable is down to 45 analog channels (for $54 per month), and it's only a matter of time before they all go away. A digital TV only gets you digital versions of the analog channels (and only some of them), so there are no additional channels to be gained.
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