What's my ethical obligation to Comcast?

In My Humble Opinion
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Yeah, I’m a fan of their original programming. Who isn’t? If I listed the top 10 shows on TV in any year, the first 7 would probably all be HBO shows. And that’s not just Sorprano’s and Deadwood, but shows like “Ali G”, “Bill Maher”, in years past, “The Chris Rock Show”.

On top of that, HBO has bascially become the best boxing promoter/matchmaker in the nation. If I ONLY got the boxing/sports broadcasting on HBO (which also incused Costas, Real Sports, and Inside the NFL) I’d consider it getting my money’s worth.

Matter of fact, the movies are the worst part about HBO.

Anyway, my wife called the cable company. The woman was trying to talk my wife into getting “standard” cable, and they indicated we were getting billed for “standard”.

She told them, “we don’t want it” and they’re supposedly bumping it back to basic within a couple days.

See, the whole damn thing is crazy right now. At their website, under “basic cable”, they ONLY list “full standard basic”. They seem to have completely done away with “basic” altogether, which only costs like $13 a month. I really can’t believe that the cheapest package they advertise is $43 freaking dollars a month.

We’ll see what happens at home.

I know when I talked to them about HDTV, they said you had to get digitial and their lowest digital package was standard, which I don’t want. If I ever get a HDTV, I’m just getting an antenna for it.

Can’t they understand that some people just don’t want all that TV?

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I’m getting the basic package next week. Other than the networks, PBS, and local access channels, what do you get?
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It depends on your geographic area. I live in SW Michigan so I get the local CBS, ABC, FOX, PBS and NBC afiliates, as well, as QVC, PAX, CSPAN (Which used to be TBS, but they switched it), WGN, CNN, local access tv, and 2 religious channels.

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Right. That’s about what I was getting originally with ESPN, OLN and USA thrown in.

They don’t even advertise that package anymore.

They ain’t looking out for ya. Basically, I’m already paying $25 just because I want $13 HBO.

It looks like they’re trying to make it so I have to pay $56 just because I want $13 HBO.

Maybe I need to write a letter to HBO and let them know.

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Of course they understand that! But they also understand that just about everyone wants some TV, so they do lots of research to find out the most effective way to get the biggest chunk of your money that they can. If they offered a $13.00 basic plus $13.00 for HBO, a lot of people would go for that, and they’d only be making $26.00 a month on those people. The way they have it set up, though, they pull in twice that much.

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The building I lived in, in the eighties, never had it’s TV cables lines updated since they were first installed in the early seventies. The signal was lousy and during the strong winds, we would lose the signal. Sometimes we could restore it if we jiggled the wires on the side of the house. Well one particularly strong wind, our signal went out and it seemed we couldn’t sustain a good signal unless someone jiggled the wire continuously. We considered calling the cable company, but that would mean waiting at least 24 hrs and no TV until then. We decided to climb a ladder and see if you could finagle it into working. We found that a short one foot cable connected to our much longer cable leading to the livingroom had worked its way out of its “F” connector. Having no way to way to crimp it back in, we removed the one foot cable and the coupler that connected both cables and plugged the longer cable line directly into the splitter that diverted the signal to the other apartments in the building. To our surprise, all ghosts(phantom images) on our TV line disappeared and we could now get all the basic cable only channels we were bereft of. Ironically, a few months later, they upgraded all the lines and gave us all those channels “free”.

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IDDQD IDKFA and just you wait mother******s :wink: