News Story: Satellite TV sales soaring
 

"Bill R" wrote in message
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Satellite TV sales soaring:
http://www.dailyherald.com/business/...?intid=3820728

"The cable industry has reached a turning point. The
industry lost some 900,000 U.S. subscribers over the past
two years."
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Bill R.

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That article would appear to be a self serving Press Release for
echostar/dish.
How many other newspapers did it appear in?

Cable has improved vastly in the past 5 years. Customer complaints have fallen
and customer satifaction has risen. Not that I am going back but they are more
competitive now.

KevinXKitchen wrote:

Cable has improved vastly in the past 5 years. Customer complaints have fallen
and customer satifaction has risen. Not that I am going back but they are more
competitive now.

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Many cable systems want more money for less channels than DBS.


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Many cable systems want more money for less channels than DBS

True but you can have cable in every room of your home while you have to pay $5
a month for each satellite box. So if you are a home with children, cable has
the advantage.

* KevinXKitchen Wrote in rec.video.satellite.dbs:

Many cable systems want more money for less channels than DBS

True but you can have cable in every room of your home while you
have to pay $5 a month for each satellite box. So if you are a
home with children, cable has the advantage.


Cable charges rental fees for the boxes AND remotes, its usually a
wash.

--
David

On 12 Aug 2004 11:36:24 GMT, (KevinXKitchen)
wrote:

Many cable systems want more money for less channels than DBS

True but you can have cable in every room of your home while you have to pay $5
a month for each satellite box. So if you are a home with children, cable has
the advantage.

If you are talking crappy analog cable, sure. But you can have that.

KevinXKitchen wrote:

Many cable systems want more money for less channels than DBS

True but you can have cable in every room of your home while you have to pay $5
a month for each satellite box. So if you are a home with children, cable has
the advantage.

Analog cable only. For digital cable, you need a cable box in these rooms,
at a cost of $2-$5 per month. And some cable systems limit the number of
digital cable boxes per household (to as low as two in some cases.)

Rich and the Slew Footers wrote:

If you are talking crappy analog cable, sure. But you can have that.

"Crappy" analog? As compared to overcompressed digital? Heh, I'll
take my "crappy" analog any day.

Cable charges rental fees for the boxes AND remotes, its usually a
wash.

That is only if you want FULL cable in each room. Most people don't care for
putting HBO and PPV in children's TV rooms. You can have basic in every room
for free.

If you are talking crappy analog cable, sure. But you can have that.

Around here analogue cable looks pretty good.