[opendtv] Re: Fewer than 2 Million have OTA DTV in US

Oops, typo.
That should have read (about) 10 years ago that I canceled D*. At first they had a plan designed for people also keeping basic cable. It economically offered things like (IIRC) CNBC, CNN/Fn, and ZDTV in an inexpensive package. They they moved a couple of these out of that package so I'd need the Total Choice package in order to get all of them. It was somewhat confusing at the time since their web page was still advertising all of those channels as being in my package and it took a number of tech support phone calls to find why I was suddenly not getting some channels. So I canceled.
But I believe all that does come under the definition and curse of re-tiering, which I consider a sort of delayed bait & switch. 

- Tom

John Willkie wrote:

So you cancelled DirecTV more than 7 years before they started service?
Makes one wonder what the tiers were like in 1986.

I'm not saying bad (yet truthful) things about cable companies these days,
but I do suggest that people investigate cable companies before they decide
to move.

John Willkie



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The "re-tiering" is what caused me to cancel DirectTV about 20 years ago
and to cancel my Comcast PVR and digital subscription about one year ago.

But my most recent bitch is the phone call I received a couple weeks ago
 from the  Comcast "Compliance (Conformance?) Dept.".  I was informed I
had downloaded too many bytes for the month and had risen onto some
watch list.  If I was noticed again I would be punished and suspended
for one year.  But they refused to tell me how much was actually allowed
and I had used only a small fraction of their advertised bandwidth,
assuming 24/7 usage.  The phone call reminded me of the humorous Lily
Tomlin "Ma Bell" skit of some decades ago where she threatened they
would "send a huge burly repairman to rip it out of the wall".  The
cable companies are the new Ma Bell.  Needless to say I canceled
Comcast.  I probably would have done so even if I hadn't been moving
anyway.  ;-)

- Tom
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