[mythtv-users] Switching away from comcast to online streams

[Stephen P. Villano]

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On 1/28/14, 7:46 PM, John Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 09:22 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 01/28/2014 12:13 AM, John Morris wrote:
>>> Know what else?  I currently have to pay Suddenlink for a half dozen
>>> channels I can't actually watch.  (TBS, TVLAND, OXYGEN, CHILLER, SYFY,
>>> one of the FOX sports channels, etc.)
>>
>> Actually, no.  That's completely untrue.  You *can* watch all of those
>> channels.  You just can't record them into MythTV (well, you can--just
>> need an HD-PVR or PVR-150).  If you want to watch them, use the
>> cable-co-provided equipment and everything just works "automagically."
>
> Not exactly.  I have a Homerun Prime + CableCard.  My only available PC
> that could run media center is a Thinkpad that is work issued so I can't
> buy the add on.  Not all PCs even qualify for the right to buy, and few
> self built ones do, but all of my own are Microsoft Free anyway.  My
> Sony BD player can only see the copy freely content.  I rent a
> CableCard, and I pay for service, expecting it to actually work should
> not be an unreasonable demand, especially since they all DID work when I
> first signed up.  Maybe you meekly bend over and allow them to dictate
> the equipment you use, I won't.  If the next time they 'change the
> bargain' they demand the purchase of one of three (all crappy)
> televisions to watch their precious content upon will you again bow to
> their demands?  When enough channels that I care about stop I'll join
> ranks of the cord cutters.
I did that in the past. In Philadelphia, we had a monopoly. The cable
company treated as such, a take it or leave it deal.
A few changes that I didn't like, the cable was cancelled and we
switched to DVD's.
I'm only over 2000 DVD titles now.

If a company makes a unilateral change that you don't like, you're free
to cancel. If they don't like it, your original contract had the channel
lineup that you wanted, you are welcome to tell them that you consider
the change a fundamental breach of contract.*
Even though their contract also stipulates that they're free to change
anything that they want to.


*Some companies are doing that year or more contract deal. Bail on the
contract early, pay a penalty. But, a fundamental breach of contract is
one that can be abandoned if you hold no faith that they'll fulfill the
standards within the contract. A material breach has severable options.
Yeah, I had to learn a bit about contract law, due to my DoD contracting
duties. Boy, but the Motrin company loved me back then!
>
> Some of the missing channels would be available in standard def if I
> bought a non-prime but aren't available with a CableCard present.  TBS
> HD is actually available on my TV's QAM tuner but not via CableCard.
> Madness.
>
>> Again, you can watch it...
>
> Watching TV without Myth after a decade of having it would be pointless
> for me, certainly not worth the subscription fees at any rate.  And I
> have seen the Suddenlink DVR.  It blows.
>
>> If you really want to watch them, get SuddenLink equipment.  If you
>> really want to record them into MythTV, get an HD-PVR (or multiple--one
>> per SuddenLink STB).
>
> Nope.  When the deal becomes take it or leave it, I'm already planning
> on leaving it.  I have had cable for decades and almost of it has been
> freely recordable on VCRs or Myth with no mucking about with cable
> boxes.  They seem intent on making their product harder and harder to
> actually use; why fight em too hard, they make it difficult enough and
> they can join AT&T and POTS lines in the history books.  Stupid should
> hurt.
>
>
>
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