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Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner
No one "has to" subscribe to the Golf Channel, the NHL Network, or anything else they choose to subscribe to. Shaw technicians don't coerce you to sign up under threat of violence...do they? I have been on Bell for over a year, so I can't say for certain.
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Then what's is the alternative? It's a virtual monopoly for land-based cable services.
It's like the joe-shmoe corner supermarket stops carrying food that they have for years and suddenly tell you that you have to drive to a mall speciality shop to buy it from now on at a premium. So I guess the choice is to stop eating.
I'd rather just cut cable altogether then. I don't personally care, I just have the view that digital cable and satellite services are clumsy, have too many useless channels, too many unviewable channels, are poorly organized, are a superfluous and purely garbage technology that sucks the money out of people. I'm not a luddite, I'm just against stupid clumsy technology and that's what digital cable (badly designed) and satellite is (yay, every TV in the house is the same channel, how can you stand that??!!!). I hate the navigational system, I hate the user interface, I hate the load times, the slow previews, excess channels in the way, etc. I don't want more channels at all.
I already download all my television shows anyway. But my dad can't do that for the golf channel. He likes to come home from work and sit down and watch it for a few hours. Either give me analog simplicity or screw it, I'm not going to bother and I'm just going to watch everything from my harddrive as it's so much easier, but my parents can't do that.