Sounds like you were an early "de-adopter". John Willkie > -----Original Message----- > From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Tom Barry > Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 5:58 AM > To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.