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Originally Posted by The Original King
For the most part cable has been shit for the past ten years.
Until this whole Comcast On Demand thing. It's like TiVo but not as annoying.
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My TiVo showed me the light.. that I didn't actually watch, see, need those extra channels. Everything that TiVo harvests for me is pretty much on the lower tiers of Basic Standard Cable... the digital world of 8 HBOs etc, are lost on me. I do like to watch Boomerang once in a while, but honestly, I should be watching the programming that the TiVo harvested for me.
One must also understand the lineups... when channels move from the top of the dial to the bottom, the channels on the bottom tend to lose viewers. Viacom tries to bundle their channels all together and to be close together on the dial.
Someone in the thread mentioned that digital cable boxes would be able to handle it.. yes the boxes would, the backend infrastructure could not. It would have to be reprogrammed and recoded, which after the cable ISP infrasctructure upgrads of the last 8 years, are finally seeing profitabilty. Will they see profits go up from doing that reprogramming? Nope...