[mythtv-users] Damn you Time Warner

[jedi]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:24:25PM -0400, Greg Lake wrote:
> R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > Tom Dexter wrote:
> >   
> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:28 AM, William Munson
> >>>  <william_munson at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>  >
[deletia]
> >
> > Read 47 CFR 76  It's your usual dense hard to read regulatory bumf. but 
> > TW is required by law to carry locally receiveable OTA channels 
> > (must-carry channels) in the clear, without encryption.
> >
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> >   
>     I did complain to the FCC about having to pay to use an STB when my 
> TV's (3) are all capable of receiving DT with out  one..I also badgered 
> the local TW GM, they always came up with some lame excuse why it is 
> necessary. My argument is, the same one we used when cable ready tv's 
> came about... It's not necessary to have one unless you have pay channels..
>   If everyone who is a Time Warner customer sends a note to the Regional 
> TW office maybe they will listen...I really doubt it though...  It can't 
> hurt. They like the revenue that the stb's generate...

   Most people are just oblivous.

   OTOH, I would love to be able to have cable without an STB again. It
would be enough to make me "switch back". Another message from an oddball
crackpot can't hurt I suppose... '-)