Quote Originally Posted by Greyhound:
How can a cable company stay in business if it doesn't have any HD programming?
Everybody has High Def Tv's today. If the cable provider doesn't provide HD progamming those TV's are virtually worthless.
Why don't you get a Satellite dish if you can't get HD programming? DirectTV or Dish or something like that?
This cable company has bamboozled several apartment complexes into signing 5+ year exclusive contracts with them, suckering them in with the ability to have phone service, cable, water, security monitoring, and telephone all bundled together, to make their apartment complexes appealing to potential renters.
However, their "cable" is nothing but a DirectTV satellite signal, redistributed to us as "cable." How this is legal, I don't know, but they certainly are getting away with it.
Nearly everyone with a balcony has purchased DirecTV and has the satellite out on their patios. However, I live in an apartment that has a sunroom, and adds an extra 300sqft onto the living room, and makes my apartment 1200sqft, and gives me adaquate room to house my enormous furniture and TV.
So the only option for residents to have any type of cable, is to go through this company. Time Warner isn't allowed to service the complex, nor is any other company, becuase of the contract they're under.
Other than that, this cable company has NO business outside of the very few apartment complexes around southern NC they've been able to trick.
No one in their right mind would pay for this shit. It goes out when it rains, just like satellite, and cost way more for less channels.
To add HBO or Ckinemax, its $15 per package, with no discounts for bundling. So HBO, SHOW, Skin, would = $45. No if and or buts.
I had all 3 of those and Starz on TWC, and it was $19 total, plus you got all the on demand channels, and the HD channels with it for free.
Fuck. Getting me all pissed off about my cable again. But its my only option that isn't rabbit ears.