[ale] OT I had to relate this Comcast conversation with y'all

[Richard Bronosky]

You used to get basic service. Now everything is digital and encrypted.
They used to have a fair offering of analog cable and unencrypted QAM, but
now they do not. It it's pretty clear that they were holding out on their
true intentions stop that they could get an influx if customers when the
broad cast television went through they digital transition. Quite
brilliant, actually. In a completely evil kind of way.
On Jun 27, 2012 9:37 AM, "Rich Faulkner" <rfaulkner at tux86.org> wrote:

> **
> Our service with Comcast is DATA ONLY.  Got no arguments on the order when
> I placed it.  Just data only at the promo rate of $39.99 a month for a year
> (something like that).  I have a single cable segment running from the pole
> to my cable modem.  (A special installation to my network closet).  My d/l
> speeds have been over 30Mbps while u/l has been on the order of 4Mbps.  A
> far cry better than the 512Kbps up we had under AT&T!  We do daily u/l of
> data to XM Satellite Radio for program content so this was a big bonus in
> the move!  We also stream a ton of content to flat panels.
>
> We don't have cable TV nor satellite TV.  If it ain't on PBS or open air
> digital; then we don't watch it.  Dumped Netflix when they got dumped by
> Stars.  Comcast does send us junk mail on getting service (and I believe
> that we do have basic cable service with the data) but I refuse to wire it
> to the panels.  The kids don't need it and I don't want it.
>
>
> On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 22:24 -0400, Gmail Maillists wrote:
>
>
> You can convince them to unbundle with quite a few no's and perhaps a bit of rudeness (hmmm strong insistence, really!)... I've gotten the highest internet speed package, but only basic cable, and then added hbo, but without anything else. I also helps to find a local number though.
>
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