 | | Becoming/has been unaffordable Typical bs that makes people tone down any packages they have or go OTA if they can.
What makes them think people can continue to afford stuff like cable TV and VOIP in this recession? No different than politicians and Bernie Madoffs of the world. | |
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 | | | Re: Becoming/has been unaffordable You have a good point about the economy. The Madoff analogy is probably a little strange.
In any case, I guess Cablevision would reply that cable TV is not a right, and we don't have to keep it if we don't feel like paying, and that they are passing their increased programming costs along to the end user. Blah Blah Blah. | |
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| | | | Re: Becoming/has been unaffordable I can watch about everything on cable on the net now. Why would I want cable tv? I dont. Prices have been high for years. As long as I got my foxnews and espn. And both are available on the net for free. I will stick to streaming and downloading everything. | |
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| | | | | Re: Becoming/has been unaffordable free for now. then just like hulu they will start to charge u for it. if cable starts loosing sub to the net then espn will start loosing money because cable companys would pay then less. then espn will start charging for like like hulu is going to at the end of this year. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Becoming/has been unaffordable said by jt75 :
free for now. then just like hulu they will start to charge u for it. if cable starts loosing sub to the net then espn will start loosing money because cable companys would pay then less. then espn will start charging for like like hulu is going to at the end of this year.
I doubt they were referring to legal sources. Its much easier and quicker to just use download sites with free rapidshare, megaupload, ect...links. | |
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|  RobIn Deo speramus.Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:3 | said by kickass69:Typical bs that makes people tone down any packages they have or go OTA if they can. What makes them think people can continue to afford stuff like cable TV and VOIP in this recession? No different than politicians and Bernie Madoffs of the world. Tone down? I disagree. The reason they raise prices is because they know people will pay it. TV is a drug, and the cable companies have everyone addicted.
I'd love to see a "Cancel your TV service" national day where everyone calls in and cancels their TV service. Cable companies across the country would shit bricks.
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| | | | Re: Becoming/has been unaffordable when the rates go up its because the fee for the cable company has gone up. its just when the cable company ups the rate they make sure they include a rate hike for themselfs too. | |
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 DownTheShoreHelp Moore OklahomaPremium
join:2003-12-02
Beautiful NJ
kudos:12
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Misleading Cablevision tries to ease the pain by telling reporters (Multichannel News, Dow Jones) that they haven't raised broadband or VoIP prices for seven consecutive years So what if they haven't raised broadband or VoIP prices, if you only have the TV service with them? They've been raising the TV prices all along.  | |
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|  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Re: Misleading said by DownTheShore:Cablevision tries to ease the pain by telling reporters (Multichannel News, Dow Jones) that they haven't raised broadband or VoIP prices for seven consecutive years So what if they haven't raised broadband or VoIP prices, if you only have the TV service with them? They've been raising the TV prices all along. And its well known that video subsidizes the other products.
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| | hmm I think its more because of the channel providers raising their rates.
It also doesnt help that verizon refuses to wire parts of long island. | |
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 fcislerPremium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | Meh Oh they are gonna charge for newsday?
The same s*itty newsday that now has stupid scrolling news to where I CANNOT right click an article to open in a new tab? Where when I click back I have to scroll alllll the way down and remember where I was?
Yeaaahhh...when they implemented that I stopped going to the site. I'll get my news from any of the other 3684246 news sites on the Internet. | |
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| |  Vote with your wallet!
Cablevision sucks! | |
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| fcislerPremium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | Re: Vote with your wallet! And get DSL? Too far
what's my other option? | |
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| lets combat piracy while charging more for commercial tv! Cable TV is getting out of control. How we ended up with a business model that requires users to pay to watch commercials as always made think.. WTF!?!?
I live in an area where OTA isn't a very good option. Only 1 OTA HD channel, maybe 2 or 3 SD channels.
Cable prices keep going up, I keep reducing the packages I pay for, most of it orientated around sports.
Cable's in danger of becoming an unnecessary middleman. The Internet keeps getting larger, sooner or later stations will be able to reach larger audiences through free internet distribution. | |
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| well... i guess i dumped my cable tv at the right time and locked in a year with no rate increase with directv. it's pretty good that the cable modem prices aren't going up but it stinks all around. i for one will just keep paying them since there really isn't any other alternative. | |
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| | | Re: well... a other thing that direct tv has is any box is just $5/m box one free so you can have 4 HD dvr and pay $15/m on top you base rate vs $60-$80 on cable. | |
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| | | yah you keep thinking that with DirecTV you're rates are next. contract or not. those don't mean shit anymore. | |
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| | | | Re: well... said by hottboiinnc:yah you keep thinking that with DirecTV you're rates are next. contract or not. those don't mean shit anymore. last direct tv rate hike was $1-$3 and it is a 1 year lock in. | |
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| my rate can't go up for 1 year because of the contract lock in. after the one year, i'll threaten to jump ship to another provider. fios may even be available at that time and i'll jump on whatever promotions they are having. with that said, for me, directv's picture quality and hardware is way better than cablevision. so even if i had to pay a few bucks more i wouldn't be as angry knowing what i was paying cablevision. | |
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 winsyrstrifeRiver City BouncePremium
join:2002-04-30
Brooklyn, NY | Sometimes you get a break I called to cancel all of my Cablevision services, because it simply became too expensive for my lifestyle. The rep in the saves dept. cut my monthly bill by $30 and gave me the family cable service. Prior to that I only had the most basic of basic cable service.
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join:2001-06-15
Long Island
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| They will be getting a call form me Telling them good luck, don't need TV any more. At my house we have decided we can find every thing we need online. I just got my bill and $150 a mo is joke...
Ill be better off with a $49 bill and Google voice and watching all my shows online.
Between the rate hike and the total trashing of Newsday print and the horror that is Newsday.com i think the should fire the people at this company for doing the things they do.
Then there is News12 with the sound effects accompanying every screen graphic and the fake helicopter sound when ever showing an aerial shot.. PLEASE!!
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·Verizon FiOS
| the broadband war that wasn't The cable-tv service IMO HAS NO VALUE, no time in my life for commercials!! Broadband did not see real competition, just choice.. Verizon raised both speeds and pricing across the board, so that gave cablevision breathing room, and how did cablevision respond? Build a higher walled garden around it's exclusive sports programming. IMO, the $29.95 promo rate for 15/2 should be a standard 'lite tier' by now and the $49.95 should be a matching 25/15 to Verizon's $65 priced tier. Obviously the $15 premium is because FTTP can deliver the goods 24/7/365, while docsis the way it's deployed does not. While not raising prices, they certainly SHOULD HAVE RAISED SPEEDS BY NOW!!
My speeds range from 5/1500 to 20/2 (highest speeds can be seen at 6am when the node is quite empty). So, if this is an experiment in boosting node capacity for new speed tiers, you'll need to offer it more than at near zero percent node usage times.
The complex issue is that cable and telco offer services with variation in the technology and feature sets which either make the service more or less of a value to the consumer. Consumers want the thruput of FTTP Broadband from Verizon, but get socked with higher cost. Consumers find value in VOIP vs POTS, but even there... unlimited prepaid cellular service is offering an alternative should consumers choose not to bundle.
Cable-Tv from my perspective offers NO VALUE, therefore I do not want it.. raising standard prices makes me laugh though. There are alternatives: satellite tv, the internet and OTA broadcasts. Digital OTA offers more channels that it used to (not that all stations use the channels effectively).
Outside NY Metro, companies such as AT&T and COMCAST are chomping at the bit to introduce data caps and find ways to gouge consumers, so in comparison we're doing quite well here (the oversupply of fiber laid in the northeast does help too). If they have problems buying wholesale broadband transport around the country, they must build/expand their own infrastructure (think LONG TERM HERE, broadband isn't going away, it's not a FAD or something that can be metered, sliced and diced and sold by the bit like printer ink cartridge prices). What is a bit disappointing is that not enough profits are going into investment of non-last mile infrastructure. Until there is a network as saturated as the northeast, there will be much less of a reason to deploy last mile infrastrucure if the QOS suffers. If there isn't capacity to have 60 million+ 50/50 megabit connections throughout comcast & at&t's footprint, it's time to get cracking to make it a happen! | |
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