why that was nice

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

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[elementxero 10+ year member]

Anybody in this world can take a list of facts and filter it to favor their position ....







Its called propaganda.

On a completely unrelated note, those are the words of someone who has always harbored thoughts of pedophilia and seeks to obscure the darkness within yourself in order to facilitate the continued refuge of your kind in the republican party.

 

[HCCA 10+ year member]

Pole smokers blow!, Oh, wait, that's double talk isn't it? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/needpics.gif.edd6d28e76618c28c46f343991bcced5.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thankyou.gif.5451126d09e870f796f50c3a4dd5acd7.gif

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

I would say it's closer to a bad pun than double talk, but that's just me.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

NCTA challenges FCC report

McSlarrow maintains that cable prices have actually gone down

By WILLIAM TRIPLETTThe National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. has urged the Federal Communications Commission to "correct a number of inaccuracies" in a recent agency report stating that cable prices have been rising, in some cases dramatically.

In a letter sent Thursday to FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin, NCTA prexy-chief Kyle McSlarrow maintained that cable prices have actually gone down.

Shortly after Christmas, the FCC issued its annual cable price survey, which stated that basic cable prices "increased more than 5% last year and by 93% since the period immediately prior to Congress' enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996."

"Expanded basic prices rose more than 6% or twice the rate of inflation last year," survey continued.

"The commission's annual cable price survey is a very limited and crude instrument for collecting information, and it is essentially obsolete in today's dynamic marketplace," McSlarrow said.

"The rate survey's failure to collect data relevant to today's marketplace keeps operators from providing truly useful data because the only pricing information collected comes from rate cards that have little bearing on the real world of discounts and bundling," McSlarrow continued. "The survey focuses predominantly on analog channels in a world where close to half of all customers take digital products, and the survey ignores the obvious consumer benefits of the bundling of high-speed Internet, digital phone and video services."

McSlarrow argued that simply reviewing price changes without accounting for increases in corresponding goods or services is not a true measure of ultimate costs to consumers. The more effective way is to measure price per channel, he said, "and the data clearly show that the real price per channel over 10 years has gone down, not up."

"It adds nothing to the discussion to claim (as the FCC survey did) that per channel measurements are useless unless channels were offered individually," McSlarrow said.

Martin has pushed in the past for cablers to offer a la carte subscriptions.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117956720.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&nid=2567

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[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

anyways

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

Price per channel -- nice approach.

It might mean a little more if you could select only those freaking channels that you want and pay for those.

Perosnally, I could probably get by with only one home shopping channel and one evangelical does the trick for me as well.

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

why can't they have cable where YOU get to choose what you want and not get these other bullshit channels, i hope this happens in the next few years cuz 3/4 of the shit on cable i don't even watch

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Price per channel -- nice approach.
It might mean a little more if you could select only those freaking channels that you want and pay for those.

Perosnally, I could probably get by with only one home shopping channel and one evangelical does the trick for me as well.

What are you saying? You don't watch all 75 channels trying to sell useless cap? What about the non English channels and the government channels?

Ive got an idea, how about calculating it by price per channel watched

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

see the funny thing is, the only way cable companies make their money these days is almost forcing you to go with the bundle because they are raping you so hard on basic.

basic cable here is like $53\mo. basic cable interweb here is like $49\mo. thats 100 ucking dowwrahs. and i chose only to get ***** with the internet because i can t afford cable myself. its regoddamndiclious.

imo- the only TRUE way to survey cable, is to go with the basic cable, the cheapest one they offer, and use that as their price. i could give a shit less if "most people have digital" because all that that ****ing is, is a D->A switch that they turn off. not like they dont film in digital. not like every piece of equipment they edit with is not a COMPUTER using DIGITAL signals now adays. and that excuse about bundling is bullshit. because even though we are getting 'more stuff' not everyone wants all that shit. and what, its like 150~250 a month isnt it?

how about that shit.

http://www.connectmycable.com/cox/cable.html

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http://www.cox.com/hr/highspeedinternet/internet-pricing.asp

cable companies are fucking bullshit.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

What are you saying? You don't watch all 75 channels trying to sell useless cap? What about the non English channels and the government channels?
Ive got an idea, how about calculating it by price per channel watched

I don't mind the non English **** channels.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

On a completely unrelated note, those are the words of someone who has always harbored thoughts of pedophilia and seeks to obscure the darkness within yourself in order to facilitate the continued refuge of your kind in the republican party.

Lmao ... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif

 

[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

basic cable here is like $53\mo. basic cable interweb here is like $49\mo. thats 100 ucking dowwrahs. and i chose only to get ***** with the internet because i can t afford cable myself. its regod****diclious.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif If you have comcast, just split your line when it comes into the house...at least around here they are unable to provide internet without the basic cable signal, so you pay for internet, and get basic cable channels for "free."

 

[atoz350 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif If you have comcast, just split your line when it comes into the house...at least around here they are unable to provide internet without the basic cable signal, so you pay for internet, and get basic cable channels for "free."

So as long as you remove the frequency trap outside of your house.

I happen to work for Comcast and a lot of you don't really understand how cable works. The reason that they have digital channels is so that they have the abilty to compress them in order to fit more channels into the bandwidth that they are alotted by the FCC. Each analog channel is 6mhz wide...you can fit 8 digital channels into one analog channel. So the reason they are converting to digital is to expand their channel lineup. They are only serving the consumer. Do you even know how much it costs to run a cable company?

 

[Relax 10+ year member]

Do you even know how much it costs to run a cable company?

No. How much?