Sunday, September 2, 2007
Cable tv
Like many before me, I've come to loathe and despise Time Warner Cable service. They twist customers' arms to make us pay more for fewer channels that are less reliably available, month after month. The latest two to fall by the wayside seem to be TBS and ESPN Classic. I realize that no one's world will be significantly improved or worsened with or without these two channels, but it's not free so I don't see why we don't get to say "no" or pay less or something. Actually, I do see because the point is that they want to force us to migrate to digital cable and maybe they think if they take away all the channels, one by one, we'll just scream uncle and agree to digital. Myself, I'm holding out for FIOS which is Verizon which is its own set of monopolistic gobbledeegook, but at least there are over two hundred channels and reputedly awesome reception all for less than we're paying now for TWC. The whole thing is so galling - the phone and television offerings. It's one of those things that we ought to have raised the roof about but we've let it go so long that raising the roof now will still leave the floodwaters leaking in through the floorboards. (Too many metaphors, but you know what I mean.)
Update. Now (Sunday morning) there's a message on the TWC phone saying that a bunch of channels' reception is messed up and "appreciating" customers' patience. I wish it was all right to write the words that $%^&* represents because this is ridiculous. Those channels have been off the air for two days already and I'd bet a lot of money that they'll be off until the holiday weekend is over. Monopolistic cable companies are wrong.
Update. Now (Sunday morning) there's a message on the TWC phone saying that a bunch of channels' reception is messed up and "appreciating" customers' patience. I wish it was all right to write the words that $%^&* represents because this is ridiculous. Those channels have been off the air for two days already and I'd bet a lot of money that they'll be off until the holiday weekend is over. Monopolistic cable companies are wrong.
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