It's funny, everything that cable companies do to stem the tide of losses to competitors always just end up pissing me off more and makes me less likely to use the service.
It's likely because they always try to use FUD and suspect statistics to make them look like the superior alternative when they are most certainly not. I find Comcast's Jeopardy HD commercials to be infuriating. "Oh at any point in time we have 500 things in HD where DirecTV only has 79." Never mind that they are taking content totally out of the equation. I could give a rats ass if I can watch a nasty transfer of a 25 year old one star movie in HD when a currently running series I watch is showing a new episode in HD at that moment and I can't watch it because I don't have the channel.
You can't polish a turd. Cable does have it's place but they need to stop billing it as the BEST SERVICE EVER when it's not anymore. How about charging fair prices for the lower level service that you do actually offer and then play off the strengths of the service in your ads instead of just alienating anyone that has more than passing knowledge about technology.
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bull3964 @ Sep 11th 2008 11:02AM
It's funny, everything that cable companies do to stem the tide of losses to competitors always just end up pissing me off more and makes me less likely to use the service.
It's likely because they always try to use FUD and suspect statistics to make them look like the superior alternative when they are most certainly not. I find Comcast's Jeopardy HD commercials to be infuriating. "Oh at any point in time we have 500 things in HD where DirecTV only has 79." Never mind that they are taking content totally out of the equation. I could give a rats ass if I can watch a nasty transfer of a 25 year old one star movie in HD when a currently running series I watch is showing a new episode in HD at that moment and I can't watch it because I don't have the channel.
You can't polish a turd. Cable does have it's place but they need to stop billing it as the BEST SERVICE EVER when it's not anymore. How about charging fair prices for the lower level service that you do actually offer and then play off the strengths of the service in your ads instead of just alienating anyone that has more than passing knowledge about technology.