cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (05/09/85)
> What do you think? Is cable TV still worth what you're paying for it? > ...... > -- > Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug Well the answer is yes, for me. And the reason is I don't pay for any if the premium channels because the video store is within walking distance, and even if I had HBO I would have to video tape the movice to fit it into my schedule anyway and HBO doesn't broadcast in HiFi anyway. However, what cable does give me is good reception on all channels even when my old S-100 Computer is running, or the food processor. I do occasionally watch the Kung Fu movies on USA network and the shuttle stuff on CNN. At $10/Month I believe that is a reasonable cost. Our cable company is "monitored" by the City Council (What business a city has in running a cable company I don't know) and if the service were as bad as Doug describes I would be down there in a minute demanding they either get a new cable contractor or force the current one to improve service. The only time I have really seen much problems were on certain channels that they claim were getting snow from their sattelite feed. (Where the noise came from nobody knew but it did get fixed) As for additional jacks in the house, if you have a crawl space like me you can put a jack in any room simply by connecting up the coax. With twist on F-78 connectors and "tee" connectors you don't even need a soldering iron. --Chuck -- - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}
dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) (05/13/85)
> What do you think? Is cable TV still worth what you're paying for it? > ...... > -- > Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug Well, since I don't have it, I'm not paying anything for it, so I suppose it's worth what I'm paying! (I'm one of those people who have never seen fit to buy a TV set.) -- Dana S. Nau, Computer Science Dept., U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 ARPA: dsn@maryland CSNet: dsn@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!dsn Phone: (301) 454-7932
doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (05/13/85)
> Our cable company is "monitored" by the City Council (What business a > city has in running a cable company I don't know) Remember when the cable company dug the trench through your flower garden to lay their cable? That's why a city controls the cable TV company. The city grants the cable company a "franchise" to use the city's property, rights-of-way, easements, and eminent domain to string their cable, in return for which the city retains control over the cable system. BTW, the US Supreme Court decided a couple of years ago that cities do *not* have any immunity from lawsuits which claim that granting a franchise to just one cable company is a violation of Federal anti-trust laws. But I haven't heard of any suits being filed. -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug ^^^^^--- soon to be CalComp
kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) (05/17/85)
In article <205@tove.UUCP> dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) writes: >> What do you think? Is cable TV still worth what you're paying for it? >> ...... >> -- >> Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug > >Well, since I don't have it, I'm not paying anything for it, so I suppose >it's worth what I'm paying! (I'm one of those people who have never seen fit >to buy a TV set.) >-- >Dana S. Nau, Computer Science Dept., U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 >ARPA: dsn@maryland CSNet: dsn@umcp-cs >UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!dsn Phone: (301) 454-7932 Now what in the world could have given you the idea that every na subscriber to net.consumers is interested in the amazing fact that you have never seen fit to by a TV set. -- Herb Kanner Tymnet, Inc.