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How many are sick and tired of their cable and satalite bill keeps going up?

hey_moe said:
To terminate the contract it is only 140.00...in two months time I would have paid 160.00, whats the difference...lol. They did say if I turned in the DVR,stopped the HD and DVR service and go with a standard receiver and agree to a cheaper plan they can drop it down a little. My response was mail me the return box for the DVR and bill me for the remainder of the contract.
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I salute you!

Man, I could save 250.00 a month, thats $1,000.00 a year..


Bill
 
pay tv freezone at my house, been well over 15 years since Ive last had it. I do have a netflix account and its worth way more than the 9 bucks a month I pay.
I dropped cable way back when they started the tier scam, of course stuff I wanted was on tier 4 history channel etc, its a joke, on us. Last christmas I bought my parents an hd flatscreen, the picture looked the same to them, I asked doesnt it look crystal clear and vibrant compared to the tube tv, no was the response, turns out direct tv the service they had charges extra for hd and they were recieving aanalog signal, my inlaws have a beautiful 52 inch hdtv, went up for thankgiving and the picture looked like crap, they have cable and after trying to fix the problem realized they too were only getting analog signal, its funny broadcast had to go digital and most stations are hd but pay service charges for it.
 
We have DirecTV... AT&T Phone Package(Home)...Cell Package(4 phones)..high Speed Internet...(DSL)

Three HDD recievers..Two of them are DVR...

Total bill per month...$280.00

I have no cell..hate them

There is Chet on TV, and I fall asleep

But the missus and kids(only home every other week) insist on keeping it..

I pay the bill, hate all the services, and am out voted...LOL


We'll all go down together I guess in the end...
 
Lionheart said:
Man, I could save 250.00 a month, thats $1,000.00 a year..
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Bill, with your math skills you could get a job with the Feds "balancing the budget"...:wavey:


While surrounded by a sea of humanity, the area I'm in is a little more less developed. Twenty years ago, before mini-dishes were invented and the cable lines got laid, I bought a LARGE satellite dish. Cost about $2,100 IIRC, but I had to have my MTV. Realized way back in the analog days that a whole lot of feeds were not encrypted. If I wanted to watch the original NBC feed from back east at 5:00pm, not a problem. Wild feeds, which were shows sans commercials sent out for rebroadcast in Canada or some type of syndication, not a problem. Most all the baseball feeds, not a problem. Loved watching the White Sox with 'Hawk' and "Wimperoo".

Then they slowly started encrypting the feeds. Most everything went to a subscription basis. Couple of years ago I tore the big, ole dish down. The minis can keep their over-hyped stuff. May go to cable just for the internet, as my DSL service isn't the greatest and I'm looking at some really big packages to upload.

Otherwise, I have two converter boxes bought using the Fed's money and they just collect dust. I do miss the local weather gal, but I can probably find some YouTube videos to tide me along...
 
I hate Comcast with a passion. I just pisses me off to no end that we can't select the channels we as customers want. It can be done. I'd dump my cable but then I'd have to put up with da Warden. I'd lose my broadband, and Vonage phone service which I do like.

I know now why we pay so much for having Comcast service. I count from 7 to 10 Comcast vans sitting lined up at Wawa every morning, and the drivers having coffee and shooting the BS.... for close to an hour. Add these up with all the others all across the country and you'll get what I mean. We is getting scrod by Comcast.
 
One of my beefs is paying for channel I WILL NEVER watch. I guess thats the price you pay. I'm disabled and TV/Internet connection is very much my window on the world, especially during wintertime here in AK. I just need to get off my butt and go see if I can get my provider to make me a better deal!
 
andersel said:
One of my beefs is paying for channel I WILL NEVER watch. I guess thats the price you pay. I'm disabled and TV/Internet connection is very much my window on the world, especially during wintertime here in AK. I just need to get off my butt and go see if I can get my provider to make me a better deal!
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LOL
 
Lionheart said:
I salute you!

Man, I could save 250.00 a month, thats $1,000.00 a year..


Bill
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LCSims said:
Bill, with your math skills you could get a job with the Feds "balancing the budget"...:wavey:
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...Are you donating the rest of the money to charity?...



I pay basic cable, and I watch with Hannah when she's at home with me.

.. So I watch Disney Channel and Nickolodeon Channel, or watch a movie with her...

When I am alone and she's at school, I watch a DVD or browse the net.... :running:
 
Many of these complaints I share. Local channels are not available over the air (geography); we get far too many useless channels; we can't get a few channels we would like without paying far too much more.

Here is one happy (if old) local story. As usual the cable company provides substandard (delayed, not fixed, run around, etc) service. The customer however is in charge of the local base housing project (privatized housing on the local military bases which are growing). That project is worth tens of thousands a month for the cable company. A simple comment about the service problem made during business discussions led to a quick solution. Too bad such service requires that much leverage.
 
It never crossed my mind about getting channels I would never watch. I would dare say 95% of the channels we get we don't watch.The bill I got this month was for 255.22. That covered 2 cell phone (basic package)the telephone (basic package) Fios internet and then the satellite bill all combine in one. The bill started out around 150.00...this is how much it has gone up in a year and a half and we have added no extra service. We have the basic cell phone plan plus Verizon gives us a 20% discount each month because of the corporate account. Which brings that part down to 56.00 a month which to me isn't to bad. I would love to shut down our home phone but the company I work for requires you to have a land line so they can download your route each day to the HHT. If I didn't have to do that I would kill the land line service. The internet service pays for itself. I read the News ever morning and do just about all my shopping on line along with reading about the product I buy which is a plus for me. As far as I am concerned the internet is bad for retailers and great for the customer who wants to read about a product before buying and what other customers have to say about the product. Also you can shop around for the best price without leaving your home.Right now I am sitting here watching the local News and playing on the Net which is about what I do each morning and evening. Now the click queen gets home and she is addicted to the TV guide that comes with DTV...lol. All she does is surf the guide for something which just about always is nothing on...lol. So I get to watch a blue screen going up and down...WOMEN...lol. Anyway getting back to the subject,I checked at the BBB about Cox cable and DTV , I was surprised to see DTV was rated a F for everything and cable was rated a A. I really thought it was the other way around. DTV and BBB rating >> http://www.la.bbb.org/Business-Report/DirecTV-Inc-81000357 Cox cable >> http://www.bbb.org/acadiana/busines...e/cox-communications-in-abbeville-la-10000163 Cox cable varies in different areas but all in all they are rated high. DTV no matter what area it was in was rated low. If you read some of the complaints from other customers you will see that their ads are very misleading. After reading what others have said I am in the same boat...lol
 
Yep, there's a bunch of channels I'll never watch..... I'd say which ones but I don't want to offend anyone. And it makes me even madder that some we were able to watch have been moved to the more expensive packages.
 
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That pretty much hits the nail on the head, i'd say.... My satellite provider threw in a new TiVo box for free when I called and threatened to dump 'em because of the price increases on the first go. Then a month later they raised them up a second time.:173go1: I have been a loyal customer for 9 years with 'em. You'd think they would consider that.

BB686:USA-flag:
 
I am thwarting Comcast's evil plan by buying up all the old VHS tapes that are flooding the market and watching THEM. At a buck a piece, I'm filling my basement with movies--and it's still cheaper than paying for cable. MUUUUHAHAHAHAHA
 
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