ctenidae
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Have no real use for the DVR, so no problem there, but glad you like Dish- trying to figure out if it's worth making the switch just because Cablevision pisses me off.
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Cablevision still sucks
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Have no real use for the DVR, so no problem there, but glad you like Dish- trying to figure out if it's worth making the switch just because Cablevision pisses me off.
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Tivo makes an HD Tivo which you have the cable company install two cable cards so everything is out of one box. Nice setup. We also have a combo DVD, CD, radio, home theater unit. I hate having 4 or 5 different components for stuff so we have 2 boxes and that's it.
hammer
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Had Dish for several years then switched to Fios.
Liked the on-screen guide for Dish a lot better but Fios allows for VOD without having a DVR-type receiver and Fios was cheaper.
Liked the on-screen guide for Dish a lot better but Fios allows for VOD without having a DVR-type receiver and Fios was cheaper.
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Have you ever had it? It definitely makes TV watching (which admittedly I do basically none of lately) a lot more convenient. Tivo also blows away any other DVR setup I've seen, but there is a subscription cost involved.
ctenidae
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Haven't tried it, but I have no clue what time anything comes on, anyway- generally, whatever looks interesting as I crawl into bed works. Food Network is great, since it's interesting enough to hold attention as you wind down, but innocuous enough to fall asleep to. I don't see an advantage to having multiple recordings of Good Eats available. Really, it all comes down to laziness- i'm too lazy to set up recording for something I don't care enough to watch at a later time when I'll be too lazy to look through a menu to find somethign I don't really care about watching.
RootDKJ
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Looks like a deal was reached yesterday.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/445368-Scripps_Cablevision_Reach_Contract_Accord.php
http://www.multichannel.com/article/445368-Scripps_Cablevision_Reach_Contract_Accord.php
ctenidae
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Too bad, they already lost me. I forgot how much I enjoyed Three Sheets on Fine Living, too- so glad to have it again (Cablevision in Boston dropped them, too). Still haven't learned the channel numbers though- all I know is Food is on 110, and the movie channels start on 300.
RootDKJ
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Sounds like Cablevision is at it again, only it's WABC this time.
http://www.multichannel.com/article...s_Signal_From_Cablevision_In_Retrans_Spat.php
http://www.multichannel.com/article...s_Signal_From_Cablevision_In_Retrans_Spat.php
4aprice
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I heard that this morning. That would be incredible. There using the Oscars as collateral. I couldn't care less about that but I'm sure much of the general population would have an absolute fit.
Alex
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SkiDork
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whos the bad guy though? Cablevision or WABC?
RootDKJ
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That's hard to say. On the surface, I'd speculate it's ABC but It very well could be Cablevision. The article states the dispute is over a "retransmission-consent" dispute. That says to me that Cablevision is receiving WABC's signal in the actual NY DMA and then retransmitting it to their customers outside of the NY DMA (perhaps in CT, maybe Danbury area). If that's the case, I'd say it's Cablevision.
If WABC is looking to get paid for carriage in an area when they meet "must-carry" requirements (the greater NYC area), then I'd say they are the bad guy, and they would have a hard time actually enforcing the blackout to Cablevision.. I'd also think the FCC would take issue with this.
SkiDork
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the article I read in the NY Daily News said it was over Cablevision's refusal to pay WABC tv for broadcasting their content as part of their basic package.
gmcunni
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i'm not familiar with this particular issue but i can tell you I've always been jealous of my cablevision neighbors. my town has Charter Cable, many of the surrounding towns have Cablevision. I've drooled over the channels and internet options they've had compared to what Charter offers.
RootDKJ
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Any network that meets FCC Must Carry requirements must be included in the Cable Operators basic package. I would think for a very large portion of Cablevisions footprint, that would be the case.
Johnskiismore
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Time Warner sucks too..... that's why I went with Dish Net, great company
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"On the surface, I'd speculate it's ABC but It very well could be Cablevision. The article states the dispute is over a "retransmission-consent" dispute. That says to me that Cablevision is receiving WABC's signal in the actual NY DMA and then retransmitting it to their customers outside of the NY DMA (perhaps in CT, maybe Danbury area). If that's the case, I'd say it's Cablevision."
That's interesting. So you guys in NY will lose ABC because a station in CT is unhappy and they're butting heads, you think? Apparently, two NBC affiliates in my area came to a compromise that surprised me recently.
At my house in Moultonborough, NH, the NBC affiliates in Boston and Portland, ME overlap. Channel 7 (Boston) has agreed to NOT broadcast NBC's portion of their programming in my area. They are allowed to broadcast their news and other local programs. I found that interesting considering the Manchester and Boston ABC affiliates have overlapped for years.
EDIT to say "COMCAST sucks." (That's at my house in Southern NH.)
That's interesting. So you guys in NY will lose ABC because a station in CT is unhappy and they're butting heads, you think? Apparently, two NBC affiliates in my area came to a compromise that surprised me recently.
At my house in Moultonborough, NH, the NBC affiliates in Boston and Portland, ME overlap. Channel 7 (Boston) has agreed to NOT broadcast NBC's portion of their programming in my area. They are allowed to broadcast their news and other local programs. I found that interesting considering the Manchester and Boston ABC affiliates have overlapped for years.
EDIT to say "COMCAST sucks." (That's at my house in Southern NH.)
RootDKJ
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Syndication rules are totally different then Must Carry rules.
ERJ-145CA
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I had Cablevision before I moved and I hated them, they started moving channels to digital so you were forced to get a box if you wanted them. So I couldn't get them but it still cost the same amount of money. I have Service Electric now and they are so much better, a better channel selection than CV and less money.
