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Originally Posted by Orrymain
I'm gonna take slight issue with the response, sort of. Comcast has been working on HD for two years at the cost of providing good ongoing to service to anyone without HD or digital. |
Hmm.... so far I don't see any issue. That's exactly what they've been doing -- much more slowly than their direct competitors have been.
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Originally Posted by Orrymain
What about me? What about the others with basic digital? They are catering to one part of the market and have been for a long time.
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Again, no issue. They are catering to the sector of the market that offers
them the greatest reward in return.
If I'm selling my house, and six buyers make me an offer, I'm not going to take the first one; I'm generally going to take the offer that offers me the most money.
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Originally Posted by Orrymain
Comcast made a conscious decision over two years ago to drive their customers to digital and now to HD. |
Again, let me re-emphasize that Comcast is doing this
more slowly than all of their direct competitors. So while what you're saying is true, and will lead to a problem for you, all the
other companies have already (figuratively) dropped you in the trash. Doesn't that make Comcast the
best from your standpoint? Instead of condemning them (as I should, because they're putting your needs ahead of mine by going down this path so slowly compared to their competitors), shouldn't you be condemning their competitors far more so than you're condemning them?
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Originally Posted by Orrymain
They have consistently been removing basic free channels and upping them to higher levels of their digital packaging. You either upgrade, or you cancel. Manipulation? You betcha!
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This is actually untrue. The have both moved channels to higher levels of service, and they have moved channels to lower levels of service. They have consistently moved channels from analog to digital (for the reasons mentioned above -- and still much more solely than all of their competitors have), but just this week we received notification of four or five channels being moved from Digital Classic down to Digital Starter, and a few more channels moved from Digital Starter to the special "Expanded Basic with Digital STB" service (no longer offered to new customers, but still patronized by existing customers who have had that service level for a while).
