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How to get my senior citz. parents TV without cable? 255$ month cable bill!
SilverSolder:
Do they really need two boxes? (doesn't that pretty much double the bill?)
Use one box, and find a way to control it from any room.
cdev:
if they caught somebody doing that here in the US they would probably go nuts. Make an example out of them!
If they still had a Devil's Island they would get sent there.
Stealing cable service is on the books here as a serious crime. (which is kind of ridiculous given the nature of much of what's on.)
I actually watch almost no TV. Sometimes its useful for local news. They used to have public access cable TV which was fun.
--- Quote from: pardo-bsso on March 31, 2021, 12:23:19 pm ---Buy the premium package and share it with the neighbours to split the bill?
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Right now the only TV I have thats officially a TV is broken and needs repair. Its likely the capacitor problem, its been like that for a year. Need to pick a supplier and buy a bunch of caps and recap the thing.
cdev:
The whole point of doing all it was to get the bandwidth to use for more cellular services, which they hope, involves embedding communications in many everyday objects, so they can monetize every aspect of them with value added services. You'll likely have no choice. Its not that they are running out of space, they want more on principle, because they can. Its a one way spectrum grab that cant be reversed. They don't really need more spectrum in fact they need less. One digital TV channel can be five or more TV channels. Nor is the porgramming that much better or more worthy of your business. And on the new system they are putting in there is a two way data path. Your telescreen will communicate to the server upstream ( for what?? So they arguably should be paying you for all that info they plan to collect and sell. ) also, there will be a hypertext web like aspect to the new ATSC, Ive read. . Now, empowered with ownership of all sorts of new data, you can bet that they will scarf up as much digital property, as they can get away with. They want all your data so they can sell it. Its officially their property now. They are collecting so much data and storing it but they still don't have the capacity to work with that big data the way they want. They dont even know what it is they will capture, all they know is that bthey want it, not the other guy. Info on the comments people make, info on who is watching the stuff they serve and when. They need the massive computers that can handle it all. Which don't exist in the quantity they need yet. They want your health data to protect you from pandemics if you are coughing, for example. (or seem to be coughing) Who wouldn't want safety from pandemic illnesses that "ARE KILLING SO MANY PEOPLE?"
T will be like Home Shopping Network where they endlessly advertise alarm/surveillance systems.. that spay on people and everybody whyo visits them, uploading the data to Amazon and Google..and soon, I am sure also Facebok and Apple, hey wont be left out.. Of course THEY want you to buy more stuff. We'll be like that parrot who learned how to order stuff from Alexa..
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--- Quote from: cdev on March 30, 2021, 02:12:54 pm ---Here in the US the switch to digital TV was such a scam and it must have cost us all trillions upon trillions of dollars.
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IMO they should have switched cable to digital and left the analog broadcasts in place, I suppose they couldn't have predicted the streaming revolution though. I think very few people today are even aware that it's possible to receive HD over the air, and it is of very little value. At least it isn't as scammy as "HD Radio", what a joke that is, proprietary and closed, almost nobody uses it, the only place it ever gained any traction at all is car radios. Analog radio is superior in almost every way.
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It's signal travels too far and so less market for cable. Same thing with analog TV. it doesn't allow them to segment the markets by income as easily;. Also, its too easy to understand for normal people.
cdev:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 30, 2021, 05:34:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: cdev on March 30, 2021, 02:12:54 pm ---Here in the US the switch to digital TV was such a scam and it must have cost us all trillions upon trillions of dollars.
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IMO they should have switched cable to digital and left the analog broadcasts in place, I suppose they couldn't have predicted the streaming revolution though. I think very few people today are even aware that it's possible to receive HD over the air, and it is of very little value. At least it isn't as scammy as "HD Radio", what a joke that is, proprietary and closed, almost nobody uses it, the only place it ever gained any traction at all is car radios. Analog radio is superior in almost every way.
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Here in the US its all about the upsell.. They want digital copy protection too. No "analog hole"
Europe has DVB-T and better digital radio which is mostly free and popular. They are talking about getting rid of analog-FM too.
tooki:
The best option is probably to call Comcast and threaten to cancel and switch to something else. And be ready to follow through in case they’re dumb and not willing to come down a lot. But they likely will. You never get a good deal by being a loyal customer to a telecom company. You do the best by switching and availing yourself of new customer promos and the special deals the retention departments can offer when you threaten to leave.
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