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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Blacklight
I have this feeling that the cable companies are all going to start jacking their rates up and charging everyone their current expensive digital premium package prices. I'm not looking forward to this transition and I have a feeling that the companies are going to use it to sqeeze more cash out of the consumers.
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I'm sure their competitors, the Satellite TV companies, would just love for them to do that so they can take more of the market share... |
The crazy thing is this is EXACTLY what is happening!
Cable companies are in a plethora of lawsuits over them not replacing the old set top boxes with digital cable boxes when they dropped channels. (Each analog chan they drop means another 2 HD chans they can fit on the cable)
Sat is reeping the benefits with higher quality HD signals. To the point where it is now cheaper to go with one of them and use the cable company for internet.
My guess is this will only get worse for Cable companies. They are seeing subscriptions drop like crazy and tons of complaints about lackluster Mpeg-2 HD signals. Eventually I predict they will just go back to basic analog cable and devote the rest of the line to internet.