Cablevision still sucks

[ctenidae]

Now, in addition to having the worst menu system and on demand programming ever, they've lost Food Network and HGTV. Food Network constituted about 33% of the worthwhile TV available, so now Cablevision blows 33% more than before.

:angry:

 

[playoutside]

Crap...this sucks...didn't know this. I pay 2 cable bills, and always thought the Cablevision lineup in NJ was pretty scrawny for the price compared to what I get in MA from Comcast. HGTV and Food were 2 of my channels I liked. Hope they resolve it and that they don't up the bill too dramatically!

 

[wa-loaf]

Now, in addition to having the worst menu system and on demand programming ever, they've lost Food Network and HGTV. Food Network constituted about 33% of the worthwhile TV available, so now Cablevision blows 33% more than before.

:angry:

You have cablevision in Boston? Can you get FIOS?

 

[RootDKJ]

Dumb. Especially when they are getting killed by competition these days.

 

[Geoff]

You have cablevision in Boston? Can you get FIOS?

Boston is Comcast. Cablevision is Lawn Gisland and slices of metro-NYC. Time-Warner has NYC-proper.

 

[wa-loaf]

Boston is Comcast. Cablevision is Lawn Gisland and slices of metro-NYC. Time-Warner has NYC-proper.

Yea, but I thought cten lived in Boston.

 

[bvibert]

Yea, but I thought cten lived in Boston.

IIRC he works in CT and has a place here. We have Cablevision here in NW CT.

 

[severine]

No Food Network? Not worth the cost! We have Cablevision but only have basic because we only watched a handful of "premium" channels (Food Network was one of them) so it wasn't worth paying 3x as much money for the little bit of extra TV we watched. However, I joke all the time about going back because I miss Food Network. Damn! Guess that's not a temptation anymore!

 

[deadheadskier]

I had heard that Time Warner dropped Fox??

Food Network is the most watched station in our house. HGTV would be second. Then sports. Out of the 800 or so TV/Music stations we have on Comcast, we probably only watch/listen to about 20 of them.

I really wish Cable was more like TV. I'd just assume hide every single channel we don't use.

 

[ctenidae]

We're paying for cable in Boston and Norwalk. Comcast is fine, Cablevision is terrible in many ways.

We're looking at switching to satellite, but adding to our bills just to get Food Network hardly seems worth it, even to poke Cavblevision in the eye.

If Time Warner were an option, I'd pay to switch- hell, I might even pay more to cancel Fox altogether (but thats a political discussion). I'm praying for the advent of pay-per-view or pay-as-you-go TV. Pay more to keep Food TV available? Sure. Pay one red cent for 15 home shopping chanels, 12 Christian broadcating, and 29 kids chanels? No thanks (maybe I'd be willing to subsidize Christian and Children chanels if there were some Buddhist porn available, but home shopping is asking too much).

 

[RootDKJ]

We're paying for cable in Boston and Norwalk. Comcast is fine, Cablevision is terrible in many ways.

We're looking at switching to satellite, but adding to our bills just to get Food Network hardly seems worth it, even to poke Cavblevision in the eye.

If Time Warner were an option, I'd pay to switch- hell, I might even pay more to cancel Fox altogether (but thats a political discussion). I'm praying for the advent of pay-per-view or pay-as-you-go TV. Pay more to keep Food TV available? Sure. Pay one red cent for 15 home shopping chanels, 12 Christian broadcating, and 29 kids chanels? No thanks (maybe I'd be willing to subsidize Christian and Children chanels if there were some Buddhist porn available, but home shopping is asking too much).

Never gonna happen. Broadcasters and Networks don't want it and neither to the Cable Co's. The technology is fully available though.

 

[BeanoNYC]

It's a real bummer. Those two channels are my most watched. I hope they come to an agreement soon. I wouldn't put all the blame on cable for this, though. Scripps Networks (Parent company for Food and H&G) were not happy with the distribution rates they were offered and they decided to pull their networks. They're making it like they were kicked off.

 

[ctenidae]

It's a real bummer. Those two channels are my most watched. I hope they come to an agreement soon. I wouldn't put all the blame on cable for this, though. Scripps Networks (Parent company for Food and H&G) were not happy with the distribution rates they were offered and they decided to pull their networks. They're making it like they were kicked off.

I'm sure both sides have not behaved as well as they could. But, if they asked, I'd certainly be willing to pay more for Food Network. If someone else gets paid less, fine by me.

 

[Geoff]

Never gonna happen. Broadcasters and Networks don't want it and neither to the Cable Co's. The technology is fully available though.

It's not so much the cable operators, it's the content providers. To get their "good" feeds, they force the cable operators to also make their crappier ones available.

 

[ERJ-145CA]

I had Cablevision before I moved a couple of years ago and they had just started moving channels from the regular expanded basic to the digital service. So I would have had to pay the same for less channels unless I upgraded to digital and leased a box. It seemed like a money grab to me. If I stayed in that house I would have switched to FIOS.

My cable company now is Service Electric and I can't complain about it, much better than Cablevision and they have the NFL network.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Caught this article in todays paper about the Food Network going awol on Cablevision
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20100104/NEWS01/1040307/1002/NEWS01

 

[ctenidae]

Think we're switching to Dish Network.

 

[Grassi21]

Think we're switching to Dish Network.

We did. Love it. The only thing that is a let down is the DVR interface. We had Tivo previously and I loved their setup.

 

[Greg]

We did. Love it. The only thing that is a let down is the DVR interface. We had Tivo previously and I loved their setup.

HD Tivo is the best. We're not positioned well for Dish or Direct (tried both) so we're stuck with Cablevision and it's bill that is approaching $100... :roll:

 

[Grassi21]

HD Tivo is the best. We're not positioned well for Dish or Direct (tried both) so we're stuck with Cablevision and it's bill that is approaching $100... :roll:

I wanted to stay with cable and Tivo. But I wanted to upgrade to HD and that would have meant buying a new Tivo to work with the HD cable box. In the end it was cheaper go with Dish Network HD and their DVR. Sacrifices....