[opendtv] Re: News: Northwest Station Pulls Signal In Retransmission Battle
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:48:12 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> I've been thinking about signing up for the Cox Triple Play. At the
> moment I am paying about $100/mo for one land line and DSL from
> Bellsouth and $75/mo for extended basic, HBO and an HD-PVR from Cox. I
> should be able to save a few bucks and get the same high speed broadband
> you are getting. Bellsouth DSL is still around one megabit per second.
If you are paying for cable anyway I'll bet there are quite substantial
savings (and speed advantage) with triple play here. But it was about a
month ago when I researched this and I only saw the phone numbers in
passing since I was not interested in that part.
IIRC from doing this in Jax, Comcast could hook up the phone part much
faster if you didn't want to keep the same number. But I guess you
aren't in a hurry anyway. I had the Comcast (minimum) phone service for
a few months and it worked flawlessly. It even charged me a couple bucks
less of "Government mandated hidden charges" than BellSouth. Dunno if
any of this applies to Cox.
- Tom
At 7:17 PM -0500 1/5/07, Tom Barry wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
At the moment the impasse between Cox and WESH is about additional
money
for the rights to carry WESH HD, which presumably is not covered under
the existing re-trans agreement for WESH analog (Ch2). To be fair to
WESH, Cox does charge extra for the HD tier, so WESH is just looking
for
a piece of the action.
Cox may charge extra for an HD STB but they are not charging me extra
just to be able to receive the HD broadcast stations on my PCHD card.
You are correct. I just looked at the website and they only require that
you rent an HD receiver. Apparently these network HD feeds are not
encrypted, as they must figure that its not worth it to deal with the
handful of people that can hookup and watch these channel for free.
Cox encrypts most all digital stations and I can't get those. So I
assume that if my PCHD cards or other peoples digital cable ready TV's
pick up the HD versions of ABC, CBS, and PBS over Cox we are not
stealing anything. Cable companies have hesitated to encrypt OTA
shows because of various statements made by the FCC in the past. But
there are exceptions and it is really unclear whether cable companies
are allowed to do so.
An interesting dilemma.
I hope my limited basic ability to receive those stations does not
disappear because of this post. But if it does I'll stop paying even
the extra $5 / month for the limited basic. It's only the improved
CBS (and soon Fox) reception that makes me keep that option. ;-)
I've had lunch with their chief engineer, but I don't think he is
monitoring the list.
And BTW, I also do not pay for a Cox cable modem since I own my own
since the Comcast days. But this only saves me something like $2-3 /
month. I'm still paying over $50 / month for cable in Gainesville but
the charge is listed mostly as being for my 7 mbps broadband service.
I don't believe DSL broadband is competitive here in Gainesville
unless you also already pay for a land line, which I have no use for.
I've been thinking about signing up for the Cox Triple Play. At the
moment I am paying about $100/mo for one land line and DSL from
Bellsouth and $75/mo for extended basic, HBO and an HD-PVR from Cox. I
should be able to save a few bucks and get the same high speed broadband
you are getting. Bellsouth DSL is still around one megabit per second.
Regards
Craig
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