[mythtv-users] Comcast 'flees $45bn monster-merger with Time Warner Cable'

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 4/24/15 3:49 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Stephen,
>
> Friday, April 24, 2015, 9:30:15 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 4/24/15 9:04 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Stephen P. Villano
>>> <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 4/23/15 4:37 PM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>>>> Looks like the merger was killed
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/23/comcast_45bn_twc_gobble_declared_dead_in_the_water/
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>
>>>> That's good news,
>>> Not entirely, at least for MythTV users.  Time Warner is one of the
>>> most MythTV hostile providers out there.  Being acquired by Comcast,
>>> which is much friendlier by comparison, could have been a good thing
>>> for many people on this list.  Given that TW and Comcast don't
>>> actually compete for customers, the people negatively impacted by this
>>> consolidation would have been content producers, not consumers, as the
>>> combined company would have had more leverage in negotiating
>>> contracts.  Conceivably, this could have been passed on to consumers
>>> as savings.  (Ok, maybe that last point is going too far...)
>>>
>>> Eric
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>>>
>> It's been my repeated experience that when two corporations merge, with
>> one having lousy customer service, the one that had barely acceptable or
>> even excellent customer service tends to end up having lousy customer
>> service.
>> Examples are the Sanyo-Fisher merger and the Sears-Kmart merger.
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> Not by definition. Here in the Netherlands our two biggest cable
> companies (UPC and Ziggo) have merged last year and are now in the
> proces of equalizing. At this moment it means that where before for me
> with Ziggo every channel was encrypted, it looks like all digital SD
> and some HD channels are becoming unencrypted. Like it was with UPC.
> So finally I will be able to move to digital! 
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
>
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>
Good for you! Unfortunately, where you have an extremely robust
regulatory environment, we in the US have a variable and weakening
regulatory environment, forgetting *why* we enacted said regulation in
the first place.
Where much of Europe accepted some ideas from socialism, the US does its
level best to destroy anything it *thinks* is socialism, ignoring
superhighways, parks, essential services, etc.
In short, we're an abject mess, attempting to protect our society and
destroy it at the same time.
What *other* nation has national leaders openly suggest removing
protections from the poor and indigent and permit them to starve to death?
I've heard that with my own two ears.