No you don’t, just sue them. I bet you could win. “Deaf man jilked for years by cable company” It would be BEAUTIFUL.
Its kind of weird Surgo, but the city controls the deal with the cable comp. They have a contract. Its being renewed this year, in the process of…
Seems to me illegal satellite tv would be the best as it’s one way, down.
C band satellite works by sending authorized numbers out. If I don’t subscribe, my receiver’s serial number isn’t listed and I can’t get the program.
Once and a while thingd get screwed up and they have to “reauthorize” service.
So how do the little dishes work? They have cards or something?
The web site that has that info is notup at the moment but there are tons of web sites & newsgroups wher eyou can buy this stuff. How ebay sold him the box is a mystery as I know they do NOT sell that sort of stuff.
For parts, they use HU Cards, I think they are, about a buck each & you can program them yourself.
Handy,
What is the URL?
Thanks,
CP
do you mean “rewards to snitches” or is it more interesting where you live?
The same thing happened to me wireless. I lived in a two bedroom duplex for about a year and a half and we had cable in the living room and in the bedroom and we paid for it. The living room had two hook-ups and the bedroom had two hook-ups. I guess so we could move the furniture around and still be able to have cable. Then we moved to the three bedroom apartment next to our two bedroom one and the same thing… two hookups in the living room and two in the bedroom. Well, when our new neighbor moved in to our old apartment and ordered his cable they found out that he had 2 hookups in the bedroom and 2 in the living room and they came out to shut off his cable and they also shut off the cable going to our bedroom. We still had cable in the living room so I didn’t say anything about it but the bills stopped coming. I didn’t tell the company about it either. Our cable sucks in my town. I pay $25/month for Expanded Basic cable that doesn’t even include Mtv!
I also have those little screw on things for HBO, Showtime, Starz, and Encore. They worked when I lived in my old town but since moving to where I’m at now only the Showtime one works. I don’t feel bad about stealing the Showtime, it’s one of the sucky premium channels anyway and our cable company wants $22.95/month for it! I say, if you can get cable for free, take it!!
Yeah… theres only 316 of them there right now…
carnivorousplant, the site I use isn’t up at the moment, I don’t know what happened to it. Maybe he went on vacation as he does sometimes: http://interesting-devices.com/dicus/