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WTF! I need to leave time Warner seriously
I would think so, but I can't say for sure.
It probably varies by region, time of year, special deal, etc. I signed up about a year ago, in the Austin area, and got into that Price Lock deal where I'm tied in for two years, but the price can't change. I imagine people who are signing up now are probably paying a little more, but 60 bucks seems steep.
And I've got pretty much the same deal as you. Internet is generally a flat charge; they don't charge by connection. Usually the only thing they will tack on extra fees for are higher-level internet, movie and sports packages, and additional DVR boxes.
WTF! I need to leave time Warner seriously
I think DISH is fantastic. Only thing is you can only record up to 2 programs simultaneously. But quality is great and their customer service is better than any big company I have ever encountered. If they would upgrade their DVR's capabilities, no one would come close.What service is better in SA...AT&T U-verse or Dish?
The only way to keep TWC from their pattern of doing this with the various Broadcast companies...and it is a pattern.....is for customers to cancel.
That is better than my set up with Direct TV.
Hopefully they don't go through with their capping system, RR is excellent in my opinion. AT&T was not a good alternative but now that you mention Clear I checked out their site and it looks like it's a good deal. If TWC tries it I'll definitely switch.
Cable is only good for the net. I moved to the country and was forced to go dish and am so glad I did. Go with Direct TV for the NFL package. Dish Network has horrible customer service.
Try the NFL package with HD and all the movie channels, HBO, Showtime, etc. for about 110 mo more or less. (Direct TV) Pay the internet sperate (cable is good for net). Cancel the land line and just use your cell. Start with next NFL season.
I have Grande, which uses Dish as it's cable provider where I live. It's channel lineup is excellent and includes both NBA TV and NFL Network in HD. My only problem is I have to call into Grande customer service for any technical or billing problems instead of Dish and their phone reps are terrible...
Yeah, I got RR with Turbo boost. I also forgot to mention I have 2 DVR boxes hooked up.
Yes it Did,..
It's a shame last year it was VIACOM then Disney got in on the act. They're all money grubbers but they didn't pre-plan the sports magnitude that FOX has unveiled and boy does FOX take the cake in regards to the lowest of the low here.
See this is exactly why there was such a push to knock out analog transmitting so everything can go cable and the price gouge could launch,..not to me they don't.
See in this case FOX is losing advertisers money due to the general populous tuning out their insistence to remain steadfast on their fabrication of facts to fit their hate pandering. So in a standoff FOX is saying pay more for what other temporary broadcast rights they'd snared or else,..I'd say FINE and they'd only do it once and I'd crush them by their own rotten tactic insistence.
As a company and consumer I'd miss those games they're holding hostage gladly. To combo send a clear consumer message of nobodies robbing the consumer and rid the cable industry of such gougers tactics,..the NFL and NCAA tried it and failed both rightfully and miserably and FOX was a major share holder in the BIG TEN Network con job that we defeated.
It's clear that FOX is so deceptively cunning that where they've bought the rights to those games. This is the 11th hour trojan horse stunt that is absolutely intolerable. Fox is so suicidal they're daring TWC to not give in to their demands,..stand on NO and get rid of such a sleaze once and for all.
Note they're only bartering on rights to view these games at a 11th hour tactic. But their propaganda BS outlets they call " Neus " aren't part of the plot,..I'd drop their Nues and business channel and even still give them their agreed share until THAT agreement expired and refuse to negotiate with them for less than free.
They don't effect me I'll see whatever I want anyway because I'd assembled some digital antennas and built a receiver / decoder and don't care what they do.
depends what internet service you have and phone serivce you have if you only have basic cable as a time warner employee that sucks but normally starz is $14.99
We are currently in the midst of re-negotiation with several TV networks (including FOX Corp.) whose contracts expire on December 31, 2009.
This dispute is the result of our ongoing commitment to keep down the cost of TV for our customers. Some TV networks have demanded massive increases for us to continue carrying their programming. And we don’t think that is fair -- not in ANY ECONOMY!
To raise awareness of these outrageous demands made by some TV networks, we launched www.RollOverOrGetTough.com, to enlist consumers in our fight to keep down the cost of TV entertainment.
We want to know what you think - should we just roll over and pay these high prices or should we fight back and risk some TV networks taking their shows away until we can reach an agreement? Visit www.RollOverOrGetTough.com today and tell us what you think -- already, hundreds of thousands of Time Warner Cable customers have joined us in this fight and the overwhelming response has been to ‘Get Tough’.
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• This doesn’t just happen at Time Warner Cable - every video service provider, including satellite and telephone companies, must negotiate contracts with programmers such as FOX in order to carry your favorite TV shows. And every video service provider faces these same kinds of disputes. Usually, we can reach an agreement before customers are impacted, but this time Time Warner Cable had to take a stand for our customers because these demands for such massive increases are outrageous.
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Good looking out,..
It'll be a sting to the consumer to miss those games. But FOX would take such a hit it could very well be the biggest blow to them finishing themselves off that they've ever done.
This is a lot bigger than some football games and has far more impact than a couple days. Some of us can afford to pay the increase no matter what. But it'd be foolish and irresponsible to not think of the other honest hard working and or out of work fellow Americans they'd make mandated cable TV non affordable,..I saw NO !!!
This is an instance where I can care less what team a fan roots for where they live or anything else. This is where we have to be team mates and put some smack down defense on FOX for trying such a stunt,..if we don't stand together and fight it now we'll be defeated and end up fighting it again and forever.
Enough is enough,..DROP EM !!!
You Idiot,..ROTFFLMAO !!!
You'd been too stupid to teach if I gave you the schematics you stooge. You're angry because you wouldn't know a transformer from a transducer, an Amp from a lamp nor an Ohm from a gnome.
I bet you have no idea what re-filtering, splitting, and amplifying a digitized signal to decode it straight out of mid air means.
Just my two cents...U-verse is the best out there. I have TW at my apartment, my fiance has U-verse, and my dad has DirecTV. TW would definitely be rated last.
The push was to broadcast over the air in digital because it uses much less bandwidth than analog and thus gives the government another source of revenue in selling off those previously-used frequency bands.
We've had this exact problem in Portland for the past 2 years! Comcast owns the broadcast rights and won't allow Blazer games to be seen on DirecTV. If you have sattelite TV you are screwed out of getting Blazer games. Unbeavable!
Jew Warner and its Jewopoly
Yep,..
That's the big lie and now if you'd like to refute my calling it a fleece. Try asking yourself who are they selling analog frequency to?
It's building monopolies from local, state and federal legislators / bag men. Being paid off for persona; profit to force feed their cons uents to a racket of turning TV into another " utility ",..to gouge a take out of what we once knew as by choice TV.
It's gotten so bad that not only does every sport known to man have and e rates for their own exclusive channels. But regions are white collar criminal territory that control viewing and cost,..that's corrupt, corporate $$$ and criminal.
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Beyond a damn shame,..
It's became the norm and the grand business plan of corrupt government being paid off by such monopolies,..
Pretty much. I've been very pleased with them.
I watch a lot of games away from my house anyway.
I remember when it happened last. People were in a panic because the new years games and the super bowl were on Fox. In the buffalo area, people were blaming time warner and switching over to the direct tv. Direct tv made out like bandits because they were calling homes of time warner subscribers, and offering a 20% decrease in price.
However, time warner and fox worked out an extension to allow broadcasting of the new years bowl games, Then, at the eleventh hour of like january 14, they worked out an agreement.
They'll get it done!!
They're doing it again right now,..and preying on you.
I say consumers need to start cutting back on cable and send them both to include cable carriers and outfits like FOX both a " Cut the BS " signal out.Fox grants 'brief extension' in cable dispute
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34632823...ess-media_biz/
See Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon, Armstrong, Mediacom and all the other cable carriers are in this grand fleece. Fox is just a notorious nexus thats angle is manipulative greed out to commit theft of not just general program gouging. But they've even tried to Hijack the Big Ten NCAA games to a additional charge Shanghai,..in spite all revenue is already 100% profit and the players don't get paid a dime.
As a long time Big Ten fan and knowing the score on both side of the angle. I now no longer care when, where or who those Big Ten teams play now, never will again and I'll see em when and if I see em,..and this is the first year in like 15 seasons I didn't buy a single ticket to a game and didn't / don't miss it a bit.
It's so outrageous that even the NFL tried forcing their channel of general subscribers to further e the billing robbery. They didn't / don't care if the general subscriber likes NFL football or not. The NFL just flat out wanted to " force " their channel onto all the subscribers billing,..that's straight up extortion.
Which is when and why I broke out some electronics schematics and went to work with a few friends. Which working together and in a manner of trial and error we developed a comparable " Free TV " setup and engineered our own receivers and decoders,..like 2 months worth of work and a total cost of like $85.00 bucks per box and like $150 or $160 bucks for the digital antenna's,..and no rental nor service fees via ownership.
Thus far we're only getting like 17 to 20 channels with consistency { including all the local stations }. But they're video and audio crystal clear, free, legal and we receive the signals of news, sports, weather and general programming. To make your own satellite feed setup requires you to buy different equipment and will require you to keep finding Freq's and codes because feed transmitters are always changing them,..frequent re-tuning isn't too hard to do but it's required and not easy as working a remote.
There's also the ability for broadband users to tap into broadcasts being transmitted off the net. Which to transfer that feed to your TV all you have to do is access the cite via PC and cord connect from your PC it to your TV,..again limited but free and until people know and become more resourceful they'll continue to get gouged and fleeced by the pay for TV racketeers.
Granted, the digital reviver box setups we've engineered thus far aren't picking up the 200 channel packages that cable carriers offer with their direct feed or their programed box's. But they provide all anyone would need to exceed basic needs. Which if I receive one more price hike cable gets cut off and out by my say so.
Then I'll settle for what my own box receives or replicate a friends satellite setup and just keep re-tuning to get all but any and everything being transmitted from satellite feed,..and either way the money I save per day, month and year will compensate ME for the channels I may no longer get and not pay another single subscribers dime either way.
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