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Originally Posted by Orrymain
On the Comcast is doing it slower and others have already dumped me, etc, nope, not here.
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Sorry, but you're mistaken.
AFAIK, all of Comcast's direct competitors already require what the OP is complaining about. All of them.
Which one of Comcast's direct competitors do you think allows you to receive cable networks in-the-clear without a box? I'll find and post evidence that that is not the case, for you.
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Originally Posted by Orrymain
Cable competitors are offering a lot of the new channels that I think Comcast should be carrying that they aren't.
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We're having a discussion about this on a Verizon forum this week, amazed at the utter crap that Verizon added this week, especially given that Verizon still doesn't offer AMC
HD, while Comcast does.
However, that's not even the point. Comcast is clearing off bandwidth so that it can offer new channels. In my area, they offer about 40
HD channels. In Detroit, where they've already completed the OP is complaining about, they just announced that they're adding the next group of channels, bringing their total to 104
HD channels. So this change that we're talking about effectively will add 64 channels.
The whole point is that you cannot have both: You cannot have the analog in the clear and all 104
HD channels and DOCSIS 3.0. It is one or the other.
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Originally Posted by Orrymain
And we don't even have the Digital Starter package option. It's no longer available here and hasn't been for quite some time.
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Comcast recently discontinued an analog service, not Digital Starter. Digital Starter includes
HD channels.
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Originally Posted by Orrymain
It's all about HD. They really don't care about the little guy anymore. |
No one cares about the little guy. No one.
Again:
f(X) > f(Y) ? X : Y
The "little guy" means little profits, and investors rapaciously punish companies that provide little profits instead of big profits.
