FCC wants to do away with all "set top boxes"?
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The additional box fees all providers charge are a bunch of Bullsh!t.
You buy the box, you pay no fees above the base package price.
I have Comcast and my TiVo is hooked up to 6 televisions and I just pay the base package.
If I didn't have a Directv employee account that I'm paying over $100/mo for because of all my additional box fees, I would drop them In a minute and go with Comcast as my only Tv provider.
Once you go to the TIVO platform, it stacks up very good to the genie and hacker/Joey setup
You buy the box, you pay no fees above the base package price.
I have Comcast and my TiVo is hooked up to 6 televisions and I just pay the base package.
If I didn't have a Directv employee account that I'm paying over $100/mo for because of all my additional box fees, I would drop them In a minute and go with Comcast as my only Tv provider.
Once you go to the TIVO platform, it stacks up very good to the genie and hacker/Joey setup
That is why the FCC is mandating the change in the first place. The set top fees have increased and doubled over the years and it is gouging the public. I agree if you buy the extra set top boxes , there should be NO additional receiver fee or Outlet fees. Hell I think if you buy all your equipment there should be NO fees period. But the apps for DISH could easily be done now with Dish Anywhere and a few changes so you could use more than one at the same time in the same household. Sling tv is doing that now, allowing you more than one streaming feed at one time in the same household.
Comcast has me pissed off. They absolutely refuse to give me access to my local government, public access, and school channels, unless I buy the basic package. That should be illegal, as they are community based channels.
The issue began when the FCC decided to allow cable companies to encrypt local programming. Before, I got all the OTA Channels and public access channels. I am a phone and internet sub. Anyone with a hook up should get access to their town or city's channels.
I usually agree with your positions, or at least understand and am sympathetic to them. In this case, I'm not following you. You're not a Comcast television customer, but you think they should be compelled to furnish you with certain television programming?
STill do. I own every receiver on all three DISH accounts and I pay any dvr fees and additional receiver fees on them.
Pre-digital the carrier that the cable company used to send you your internet / phone also included really basic tv channels, so it used to be somewhat "included" in your package. Now that everything is digital one needs a convertor at each tv location, so I can understand the angst somewhat.
All I want is my kids' school channel and my town's channel for public meetings. That should be given for free to anyone. I don't even want their carriage of my locals. But the public access should be public access. Heck, I already pay for those channels through my taxes.
Whatever happened to "cable box" or "satellite box"? That's going way back to when we called jeans "dungerees" and video game cartridges, "tapes". For the younger people a cartridge was...
i am sure comcast is aware of the issue. they force employees to sell sell sell..
while they must make sales, the pressure must cause churn when employees are caught
Although that makes logical sense, it's the overall issue with some providers thinking that they can hold certain things histiage. I get that Comcast pays retransmission fees for local channels, but public access should be...public access.
Pretty much what I was thinking when I posted.
http://www.multichannel.com/news/congress/house-judiciary-will-look-fcc-set-top-plan/407783
http://www.multichannel.com/news/congress/house-judiciary-will-look-fcc-set-top-plan/407783
So once again the Big Business concerns will trump any change in the system. So look for set top prices to continue to climb if they don't allow set top competition to exist.
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