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[CATV] Looks like I'm finally leaving Charter TV

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reply to Phatty
Phatty, I am joining you in January. I refuse to pay full price because the costs are now too high for me to justify Charter TV.

U-Verse I will give it a chance. What they offered me as a AT&T wireless customer was just too good to pass up, If I can knock off + $70 and get more than what Charter has, I have to really consider the change. Or be that stupid and pay out my ass with Charter.

I will keep the internet since it is a partial write off for me.

I am making a financial decsion here. That is the motivation to leave Charter TV.

reply to Phatty
I am like you. And i think we are like most other value customers.
Direct TV has 8 packages starting at 30 a month. Where is charters 30 dollar TV package.

This whole TV business model is flawed and getting worst. As all the Channel providers want to be paid more, from each customer, and want to be added to the basic package to get paid by ever customer. We all get higher prices and number of channels weather we want them or not.

Then to add insult, after you pay to get all the channels, you have to watch commercials from both the content provider/channel Local/National Ads. Now Half, of the TV air time you watch, is Commercials.

So the business model gets me to paid for the service, the channel, the box, to use a DVR, forced to watch commercials witch they get paid to show me, forced to have Ads in the box menus that they get paid to show me.
They (all the middle men, not sure how many of them there are any more) are looking for even more ways to charge me a fee for the privilege to watch TV, and making it as hard as it can be, to be able to watch something when i want too, on any device i chose to watch it on, after i have paid for the privilege to watch it. This way they can charge me for each device and anything i watch seven way to Sunday on each device.

This is why OTA TV is gone because they can get us to pay to see mostly commercials. It should be once i have paid for it, i should not be forced to watch commercials half the time.

Its like we have a TV channel bubble, the more channels they add the more money the industry can rack in, on commercials and price increases for all packages. At some point this bubble will burst as many customer start dropping the larger packages because of cost vs value or switch to internet for TV.

reply to Phatty
I just got DirecTV. Never had an interest in charterTV. I seen my neighbors setup. Picture quality was poor on charter.
She cancelled Charter TV about 2 months ago. Went to DirecTV.

We didn't pay anything for all new equipment.

The price hike only applies to the upper end packages. The Entertainment package suits us fine, and the picture quality is stunning! charter can't even come close.

Love charter for HSI and phone, but NOT for TV.

if you're going to get DIRECTV and their new GENIE setup, let me know, I'll give you my account number and we'll both get $10 off ($100 total).

reply to BF69
You should really take a close look at Directv before taking shots at pricing. Charter has a dismal excuse on HD channels and not to mention outdated equipment and picture quality. I dumped Charter TV over four years ago for Directv. My picture and equipment puts Charter to shame. Charter is lacking Movie Channels in HD and a lot of Sports Channels. Charters HD picture is compressed. Many people have no issue with a bill that is $10 more to get superior service. Over the last 2 years my neighbors Charter Tv service has gone out 6 times for 1 hour or more. During that same time I have lost my Directv signal once for 2 hours in a ice storm.

Also Charter jacks up rates every year. Directvs is small compared to most companies. Something I get on Directv that Charter can't supply a superior Whole Home DVR.

Yup. Charter is so far behind in terms of quality of HD picture, and old equipment. AND more expensive!
DirecTV's equipment is YEARS ahead and alot more sophisticated(even more advanced than DISH imho) EVEN in year two, Directv is STILL cheaper than the similar package Charter offers.

I do give Charter credit for HSI though. We do live outside the city limits here, and charter was the only carrier who stepped up and provided us internet (and not some crappy DSL 1.5 like AT&T offered later on).

reply to Phatty
There's a lot of legwork involved in getting DirecTV's rebates and promo pricing. Read the fine print...

I didn't see any difficulty. All the rebates were INSTANT, install was FREE, delivery was FREE, $600 of equipment no charge. when I got my first bill, everything was the same price as it was when I ordered it online. my referral from my neighbor was already deducted. I see no issues. Discounts were clearly stated and for the time periods involved.

Maybe its been a while for you, eh?

I might have missed it compuguybna, but how many tv's do you have connected?

I've thought of going the satellite tv route MANY times, but if I have to pay $5 or more for a box on each tv in the house, that alone almost covers my expanded basic tv with Charter. As I'm not much of a tv watcher, I can't see paying $20 or more in rentals just to use the system and what's the sense of having just one tv get all the channels and the other 3 can't?

Sounds goofy that I say I'm not a tv watcher but then have 4 tv's, doesn't it? Wife has to have one in bedroom and kid has one in his room. Have a tv in family room, in basement, but can't even remember the last time it was turned on! Family room is mostly used for my office/work shop and have stereo on, not tv!
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reply to BF69

I went with DirecTv 2 years ago and I can't see myself going back to Charter again for TV. However, I do have the Charter 100 meg internet package which I pay around 74.00 a month for I'm currently on the old pricing. For phone service we use an Obi 110 with Google voice so all of our phone calls are free.

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reply to Phatty
I'm leaving Charter as of today. I have had Charter for around six years and been paying around $210 every month.

ATT Uverse getting installed within the next 2 hours. Waiting now

Anyways, since I moved to Reno, NV it has been aweful here.
Internet never stable, pings always high, On Demand hardly works and in the last 4 months I have had techs out about 30 times maybe more and I'm not bs'n.

It was good in Carson, NV but it's not here in Reno.

So, I will get all the same services but instead of 100Meg internet I will have 24meg. My monthly bill will go down around $40-$50 or so.

But I just can't take Charter's crap anymore.

Right now you can get most fees waived including installs, activation and equipment.

I tried around 3 months ago and they wanted $400 up front but now it's $0 up front. With no other fees.

Thanks Charter for the good previous years but prices too high and unstable!

Good luck everyone!

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Jeffro I'm not following you in regards to sports I get NFL, NBATV, Big 10, all the ESPN's Fox Sports South, CBS Sports. So what am I lacking here

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