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This is a joke and another industry give-away. Which brings me to my question for the day: can someone explain to me where we (as in OC/C/CH governments and citizenry) now stand with respect to Time Warner? Have we relinquished all say in what they provide us and how much they charge? Is it utterly beyond feasibility at this point to even consider seeking some sort of competition for service to the area? What were the original terms of the agreement - once the cable lines were in, did we become wedded to T-W Cable in perpetuity?
#Time warner cable analog to digital converter full#
Once we have full switch-over to digital, I suspect the reputedly lousy digital broadcast reception could finally drive the last non-satellite holdouts to get cable. It's a complicated world, but bowing to the pressure to bundle all services into one is both imprudent and - as T-W consistently demonstrates - not always economical once monopoly creeps in. Our landline phone was the only thing that worked through hurricanes and ice storm but we seem to lose it on other, random occasions, and I'd prefer not to lose both internet and phone service at the same time. Moreover - not a small point given our weather history - it seems prudent to have more than one form of communication with the outside world. We are surrounded by very tall, signal-obstructing trees and DSL still isn't as fast as cable.
#Time warner cable analog to digital converter tv#
I'm too embarrassed to say just how exorbitantly expensive all that is, but any client of Carrboro-Chapel Hill Time-Warner Cable knows how much it has gone up in the last decade, not to mention how much it's gone up since the first local contract was approved.Īs many people like to remind us, we do have alternatives: satellite TV service and DSL for the computer.
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We have basic digital service (i.e., not HBO or other premium channels) to two rooms plus internet, and our son "treated us" (he paid for upgrade, we pay monthly fee) to DVR service in one of the rooms. Our relation to Time-Warner is definitely local, since - at least in theory - the contract with them was locally considered, approved, and re-approved (?). The FCC giveaway probably doesn't qualify as a local issue for OP purposes, although the general loss of media local-ness is pertinent and - to put it mildly - regrettable. If I had cable service to the room, I wouldn't need a converter, would I? (It also says that trying to sync the remote with the TV should be abandoned "after 150 trials" - must have been written by someone with hugely more patience than I have).Īll this brings me back to two abiding irritants: the national FCC giveaway to the big media companies and our local thralldom to Time-Warner. Forewarned that setting up my two non-cabled analog televisions to receive digital signals will be "fiddly" and probably doomed, I've now got the converter instructions spread out in my kitchen, only to learn they presume that I either have a large outdoor antenna or cable service to the room.
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