[mythtv-users] Comcast rendering my HDHR useless

[Anthony Messina]

On Monday 10 November 2008 02:42:38 am Jon Bishop wrote:
> This makes me ponder. Now, for years and years, you've been able to  
> hook your TV up to the cable line and tune all the channels you've  
> subscribed to. Now, with QAM, you could *theoretically* hook up most  
> new HDTV sets to the same cable and get all the digital channels that  
> you are subscribed to, except that commie-cast has encrypted all those  
> stations, forcing people to pay for a set top box.
>
> It seems to me that this is extortion, and would like to know why the  
> FCC doesn't require the cable co's to broadcast in such a way that  
> people aren't forced to lease hardware, or provide as many STBs as  
> requested at no expense to subscriber. There's no reason for them to  
> broadcast encrypted signals except to screw their customers. When  
> you're not a subscriber, they disconnect your cable, physically. If  
> they don't, that's not the fault of the consumer.

What I'd like to see is how much wasted electrical energy (kWh) is spent on 
the required use of cable STBs throughout the US for a year.  That might be 
an interesting way to fight the long-term battle.

-- 
Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery
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