[opendtv] Re: News: Northwest Station Pulls Signal In Retransmission Battle
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:47:59 -0500
Tom Barry wrote:
> In my last 4 residences, over 3 cable companies, it has always
> been a negative or trivial cost for basic cable service once I
> was already paying for cable broadband. In Gainesville it
> actually costs me almost $5 / month and I think that is the
> highest so far. But an engineer from Fox has claimed they will
> have the HD feed on cable very soon, followed later by OTA.
> And my digital reception is still better on cable so I'll
> probably continue to pay it.
I'm not sure what your actual numbers are, so I don't know how to
interpret what your wrote.
I can get broadband access from Verizon for either $14 or $30 /mo,
depending on speed (I use the latter), and I get all the major
broadcasters' SD and HD offerings, as well as other nice stuff such as
Deutsche Welle and France 24. And Veronica Mars in HD, as well as the
Super Bowl, without any middlemen and their squabbles.
Last I checked, this has been maybe 3 years, the digital tier from Cox
costs around $67/mo without the premium channels, and without broadband
access. But it does carry more programs than OTA. There are loads of
variables involved here, but my neighbors seem complacent enough with
cable bills at ~$100/mo, when all is said and done. And these can only
go up.
And better yet, my phone and broadband access are independent of my TV
access. And each TV source is independent of the others.
> BTW, all the major networks seem to be available on Cox cable
> here but in analog. On the ABC, CBS, and PBS feeds are in HD.
> I have no idea why the CW & NBC aren't available in HD.
I do. It's really very simple, Tom. The fact is, in Gainesville you
don't have the CW network, or My Network TV, or NBC as OTA options. So
what does the cable company have to fear? Nothing. You have no way of
getting that content in any way other than with cable (maybe DBS), so
they have no incentive whatever to offer these broadcasters in HD.
Why Gainesville residents don't raise a stink about this is what I don't
understand. Who is on the take over there, keeping OTA broadcasting
restricted to its 1950s era level of choice?
Bert
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