Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Jun 30 2008
Charter Communications takes new tact on digital?
From what I can perceive, Charter Communications has now flip-flopped on its former campaign to convince us that we needed its digital service in order to continue viewing our cable channels after broadcasts go all-digital in 2009. Now the TV commercials for this company tout the fact that those of us with Charter Communications service already have the perfect solution for viewing digital broadcasts and that we don't have to worry at all. Since the young man hired by Charter came to visit us this past winter, yet another cable channel appears to have gone dark on our service. This company continues to baffle me with their changing horses midstream and then bragging that the old pony was a better swimmer than the new one but that this journey will be the best ride of our lives. Confusion may be a good short-term ploy, but repeated leanings in that direction usually lead to mistrust and resentment.
At this point, all we want Charter Communications to do is offer us a basic package of local broadcast channels for a respectable fee and we'll take the rest of our viewing business to satellite services, or possibly to AT&T, if the latter gets their cable service going in our area. (AT&T currently provides our internet service and gives us what we need in order to run a web server, which is a major selling point.) If Charter continues to just take away channels and charge prices of more than forty dollars per month, that new wet pony of theirs is going to find itself bareback, lost and riderless in a few months.
I'm not concerned about the whole NebuAd issue. This hapless bunch hasn't marketed their own services consistently. I doubt they would have been any threat to my privacy when they might have attempted to determine which ads would appeal to my already-fed-up-to-here psyche.
posted at: 08:14 | category: /Arts and Entertainment | link to this entry
From what I can perceive, Charter Communications has now flip-flopped on its former campaign to convince us that we needed its digital service in order to continue viewing our cable channels after broadcasts go all-digital in 2009. Now the TV commercials for this company tout the fact that those of us with Charter Communications service already have the perfect solution for viewing digital broadcasts and that we don't have to worry at all. Since the young man hired by Charter came to visit us this past winter, yet another cable channel appears to have gone dark on our service. This company continues to baffle me with their changing horses midstream and then bragging that the old pony was a better swimmer than the new one but that this journey will be the best ride of our lives. Confusion may be a good short-term ploy, but repeated leanings in that direction usually lead to mistrust and resentment.
At this point, all we want Charter Communications to do is offer us a basic package of local broadcast channels for a respectable fee and we'll take the rest of our viewing business to satellite services, or possibly to AT&T, if the latter gets their cable service going in our area. (AT&T currently provides our internet service and gives us what we need in order to run a web server, which is a major selling point.) If Charter continues to just take away channels and charge prices of more than forty dollars per month, that new wet pony of theirs is going to find itself bareback, lost and riderless in a few months.
I'm not concerned about the whole NebuAd issue. This hapless bunch hasn't marketed their own services consistently. I doubt they would have been any threat to my privacy when they might have attempted to determine which ads would appeal to my already-fed-up-to-here psyche.
posted at: 08:14 | category: /Arts and Entertainment | link to this entry
