Feb 17, 2009: Woo-hoo or Boo-hoo?

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I like the $3/month for sending the bill...which is not able to be done electronically etc.

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Once they offer an online payment option they'll slap you with a $3 convenience fee every month!
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Not only do not care for TV much, but I also hate the idea of "package deals." I don't want all that junk. I get 6 channels over the air, and that's already more than enough. What kind of person "needs" or even wants 100 channels?

I do not intend to pay for TV, especially the kind that is subsidized through advertising. Once my TV dies (ten year old Sony, good as the day I bought it), I'll get a plasma or LCD TV or whatever they'll have then and use it for watching DVDs. As for the TV programs that I absolutely HAVE to see, which amounts to almost nothing, I can find those online.

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Ditto... I hate to fund the coimcast monopoly on TV, paying for stadiums and overpriced service, while watching the same ads that I get on real TV.

Besides my six or so broadcast channels (not including the Spanish channel or HSN, neither of which I watch, but both of which come in remarkably clear...), if there was the chance to buy, say, discovery, history, DIY, and maybe a few others on a $1 or $1.50/month option, Id seriously consider it, but even those beam me advertisements, which I find utterly ridiculous.

I would very much like to get an LCD tv, but primarily for DVD watching. We only have rabbit ears, and when the changeover comes, Ill likely buy a converter box. As I understand it, digital TV signals tend to be all or nothing, and I am close enough to Philadelphia, to generally get the whole signal, I'd guess, based upon current analog performance.

I dont mind watching commercials for the free tv entertainment, and as junky as most tv is getting, Ill even upgrade to maintain the status quo. However, this is exactly why I find cable to be an egregious waste of money, and why I avoid it like the plague.

So long as digital provides a decent signal, at least as good as now, and potentially also the ability to get some (free) shows in HD (big whoop, perhaps...), I dont mind a converter purchase. Then again, if I was not gainfully employed, and especially if I was sitting on any sort of CC debt, I certainly would not be upgrading to this, when better things could be done with my money and time...

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I have a 27" CRT TV - no LCD/plasma, no cable/sat/etc. I have my rabbit ears positioned to pick up a few channels (and I'm 26 y/o
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I save TONS of time and money by not watching the ---- thats on cable TV. Makes it much easier to get out of the house and do something active and enjoy the beautiful place where I live.
 
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Not only do not care for TV much, but I also hate the idea of "package deals." I don't want all that junk. I get 6 channels over the air, and that's already more than enough. What kind of person "needs" or even wants 100 channels?

I do not intend to pay for TV, especially the kind that is subsidized through advertising. Once my TV dies (ten year old Sony, good as the day I bought it), I'll get a plasma or LCD TV or whatever they'll have then and use it for watching DVDs. As for the TV programs that I absolutely HAVE to see, which amounts to almost nothing, I can find those online.

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Ditto... I hate to fund the coimcast monopoly on TV, paying for stadiums and overpriced service, while watching the same ads that I get on real TV.

Besides my six or so broadcast channels (not including the Spanish channel or HSN, neither of which I watch, but both of which come in remarkably clear...), if there was the chance to buy, say, discovery, history, DIY, and maybe a few others on a $1 or $1.50/month option, Id seriously consider it, but even those beam me advertisements, which I find utterly ridiculous.

I would very much like to get an LCD tv, but primarily for DVD watching. We only have rabbit ears, and when the changeover comes, Ill likely buy a converter box. As I understand it, digital TV signals tend to be all or nothing, and I am close enough to Philadelphia, to generally get the whole signal, I'd guess, based upon current analog performance.

I dont mind watching commercials for the free tv entertainment, and as junky as most tv is getting, Ill even upgrade to maintain the status quo. However, this is exactly why I find cable to be an egregious waste of money, and why I avoid it like the plague.

So long as digital provides a decent signal, at least as good as now, and potentially also the ability to get some (free) shows in HD (big whoop, perhaps...), I dont mind a converter purchase. Then again, if I was not gainfully employed, and especially if I was sitting on any sort of CC debt, I certainly would not be upgrading to this, when better things could be done with my money and time...

JMH

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I often get calls from Comcast ..trying to upgrade me with a teaser rate. I tell them I can't wait to ditch them for some practical alternative. Maybe when Verizon gets fiber optics fully installed in Pottstown. I have to have cable. Anything short of a Channel Master directional yields snowy signals ..even though we're only 30 miles from most of the broadcasting towers. I did have HBO and STARS (formerly Prism) when they merely filtered it out at the pole ..but the cable company is always scheming to keep the ball in their court.

When they passed the law that you could have your own converter box (you buy it) when the cable company charges you for the converter box ...our cable company (formerly Suburban Cable) would merely lease all of their cable boxes and then routinely (just often enough to make the buying of your own box uneconomical) switch scrambling methods. They would have Tocom boxes for 3 years ..then switch to another type of box.

Then they went digital and "on demand" ..and whatnot ...

I get more out of The Weather Channel than I do 50% of my upper tier basic service (is that an oxymoron - that's what they call it).

I can't wait to see Comcast lose market share in their "honey bucket" status. They've milked me relentlessly with poor customer service and way high prices for what they deliver. If you have stock in Comcast ..and lose money (or gain) in the future, my non-sympathies. This company manipulated the PUC to allow them to spend millions in expansion to non-profitable areas ..and allowed them to charge their current customers. Honey bucket ..where you can spend other peoples money to expand ..instead of taking any risk in investment and stand upon your own two feet in viability ..and get an assured profit on top of it.

I can't wait to be a cash cow for someone else.
 
There's nothing in physics that says a digital signal has to be all or nothing. It's up to the mathematicians to come up with a compression algorithm that adapts smoothly to error, and allows encryption. That would probably earn a Nobel Prize, if they had one for math.
 
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Dah-dit dah-dit....dah,dah,dit,dah

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dah-di-dit ... dit .... di-di-dah-dah-di-dit

dah-di-dah-dit ... di-dah-dah ..... di-di-dah-dit ...di-dah-dit... di-di-di-dah ...di-dah-dit
 
I was a O5H in the Army. Don't know if that tells ya anything...

Win, I only commented because your first post was gibberish, with at least one unintelligible charactor.

My bad on the misspell, but I have not been at a mill in nearly 30 years. And I never sent it, just recieved it. (shrug)

Btw..I never heard the term "CW". We always refered to it as "copy".
 
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I was a O5H in the Army. Don't know if that tells ya anything...

Win, I only commented because your first post was gibberish, with at least one unintelligible charactor.

My bad on the misspell, but I have not been at a mill in nearly 30 years. And I never sent it, just recieved it. (shrug)

Btw..I never heard the term "CW". We always refered to it as "copy".

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No problemo, Jaybird.

PB sounded "CQ" which nowadays since the demise of CW, is heard only on the amateur bands, typically followed by "de" and the stations call. So, in response I sounded "de" and "?" asking to know his callsign. I also could have sounded QRZ ? but that was more work.

"frvr" is just shorthand - forever - vowels are frequently dropped to increase speed.

cw is short for continuous wave - the characters are formed from an interrupted carrier wave as you know - the original digital communication, to put things back on topic.

And I do know what a mill is
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