I have Netflix and Hulu running through a Roku device. No need for cable TV at all.
The big-government/big-corporate crony-fascist complex doesn’t care what you want.
We dumped Charter cable 8 months ago. The only thing we get from now from them is high-speed internet. We’re doing just fine with an air antenna, Roku3, Hulu+, Netflix, & Amazon Prime. We’ve got more than enough to watch and we dropped our cable bill by $100/month. And we watch WHEN we want to watch....no schedules...
In 1980 we had fifty major media companies in this country. Now its six Media Corporations. All that power and influence concentrated into the hands of a few men. Do you think the men that run those Corporations have any love for traditional America or have they done everything they could to undermine it? The last thing we need is for those Corporations to get larger and more powerful.
We have Charter at the Outer Banks of NC, the only game in town. They recently converted to digital on March 4 and were ‘forced’ to rent a set top box to get a usable signal. They charge $6.99 a month for each box. I was tempted to go the outside antenna route; but the reception is terrible.
The bantamweighters, which include Judson Phillips with Tea Party Nation, Colin Hanna with Let Freedom Ring and Stephen Demaura with Americans for Job Security, are arguing that Comcast and Time Warner merger would provide less diversity of thought, amongst other things, which is not what the law was meant to ensure. They cite the First Amendment to the Constitution as a “guarantee of a diversity of viewpoints.” The First Amendment does no such thing as guarantee diversity of thought. Only a liberal would argue such. Their argument is not just wrong historically, but a very different plain meaning than our Founders intended for the First Amendment. In essence, the arguments the "liberty" people make are political arguments that conservative interests might be harmed by the merger.
It always pains me when I have to point out to good, faithful conservatives that they didn’t invent the Constitution even if some of them just discovered it six years ago.
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As a Time Warner customer for years, I hate to see this merger. We have just gotten them to be a really good provider.
Our local power utility has fiber optic cable. Their cheapest internet package is about 5 times faster than Comcast’s best. I would go without before I went back to Comcast. I am amazed that literally anyone at all still has Comcast around here. Seriously, I don’t get how they still have even a single customer.
I think Al Franken’s running the hearing. What a tool he is.
You mean like when there is only one cable company to "choose" from?
Streaming on-demand is almost ready for prime time (pun slightly intended) - I think in another 2 years, the old cable model will be “dead man walking” in that they’ll still have the lion’s share of customers, but their days will be officially numbered, and they will suffer ever-decreasing customer bases as people cut the cord.
Grover Norquist Turns to Progressive Media in Crusade Against Ted Cruz... Grover is the Muslim Brotherhood’s best friend. Note his Muslim wife and ..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084869/posts
Abdurahman Alamoudi, the Boston bombers, and Grover Norquist .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012061/posts
On both counts the Comcast/Time Warner merger clears the hurdle.
No it doesn't. In our neighborhood, Comcast is the only game in town for internet services. They also scramble the signals so over-the-air antenna don't work and you are forced to buy their basic cable box or subscribe to their internet service if you want to use Roku, Chromecast or other internet based service.
The reason they get away from this crap is, shall we say, good interface with the local politicians who permit it.
Wrong, wrong and wrong yet again.
Who writes for this Townhall site? Whose pocket are they in?
Comcast and TWC are already without competition and the horrible service and product by both is legendary. And this would remove even ore competition. That is anathema to Capitalism. Capitalism does NOT mean permitting business to do whatever it wants as it will turn into the seven headed hydra. No. Competition must be fostered (tax breaks an obvious example).
This merger will D E S T R O Y competition and innovation. It is the flip side of Socialism. It is a merger that must be stopped. Many more of these “too big to fail” companies and kiss Capitalism goodbye.