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Re: what would you do? - Michael - 10-03-2009
I've about decided that I'm tired of having to be quality control for businesses. I have to watch to be sure that I'm getting everything I paid for; I don't think I'm willing to watch to be sure I'm not getting more than I paid for. At some point, businesses need to hire competent people.
I wouldn't call and I'd watch those channels (of course, that presumes there is something worth watching!).
Re: what would you do? - D. Lawson - 10-03-2009
This happened to me at my downtown apartment years ago. I got about 15 channels from the next tier. The tech who did the installation discovered it when he did the channel search, but just shrugged his shoulders and left. If he wasn't interested in correcting it, neither was I. I was bummed when the audio on Turner Classic Movies went out a few months later, but I had no recourse since that was one of the 15 I wasn't supposed to get.
I am with the same cable company at my current home, and they just dropped a few channels from our lineup, but didn't decrease our monthly payment accordingly. Perhaps we should call it even.
Re: what would you do? - davester - 10-03-2009
I can't believe people even worry about such stuff. Anyway, the scoop is that if you don't have a cable box then they need to put a filter on the line at your house to knock out channels. Many cable companies don't do that since it would cost them money and they don't really care what you watch...just so long as you aren't getting the premium channels that they make most of their money on (and for which you need a cable box to decode). Also note that you can get both digital and analog channels with no cable box...you just can't get the encrypted channels.