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Originally Posted by ranbob
Okay, I'm sure it's my own fault for not really understanding things and this doesn't affect me. It affects my mother in law.
I thought when you subscribed to basic or expanded basic, you got the local area channels plus a few more.
On June 12th, local channels are going all digital. Great!
Local channels here (Seattle) will then be entirely digital with most being that the digital signal is HD.
Now Comcast has installed a box to her set so that she can receive digital signals. She doesn't need the box as her tv is a Sony HD with a QAM tuner. Now she doesn't get the local HD programming! When she asked about this, they told her that she should have been paying for it all along.
Bullshit! If the local signal is HD, then it should be included in her basic package!
Oh yeah, they say that they will be scrambling all of their signals so you have to use their little 'converter' boxes whether you have a digital tuner or not.
This to me, is an out and out ripoff! She, and several others are writing letters to her home owner's association (which supplies basic cable as part of her assoc. fees) as well as the FCC.
Comcast has you covered? Yeah, your bank account if you want their service!
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I feel for you. I took the "you don't need cable tv so drop them" path a few years ago. The problem is analog is going away which means some of the channels I used to watch, and almost all my local channels, are going away because I'm in a fringe area where DTV doesn't work well. The one local channel I still get is not watchable a lot of the time.
It really bothers me the FCC response is to tell people in this situation to buy programming from a service provider and yet they do nothing to protect the consumer. So they're right when they say you don't need cable and they're right when they say you don't need TV, but it sucks scum water to be in this situation.