With the recent wave exposure about poor quality HD cable signals, a petition has been developed by one of the hosts of the popular audio/video podcast AV Rant. In the original posting, it seems that this petition was instigated by problems the host and Audioholics' staffer, Tom Andry, had with his Comcast HD service and a few vocal listeners.
I think that the petition will be useless without action. What do they care if you sign a petition and still pay them for their crappy service? They can easily just ignore you. This would still be true even if all of their customers signed the petition, and still paid for the service. If you want to have an actual impact, sign the petition, and discontinue service with them, sending them a letter telling them why. Otherwise, your money will spend the same, regardless of how dissatisfied you are with what you are paying for, and it won't make any difference to them.
The point of their service, from their point of view, is to make money, and the only way you will get their attention is if you affect their ability to make money. Everything else is irrelevant.
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Too many people seem to spend too much time reading between the lines for what is not there instead of paying attention to what is there.
You guys really want to get the ball moving? Get a real signed petition, tell Comcast (or other provider) you're switching over to satellite service (DirectTV, Dish), then they just might move their lazy, bloated collective gluteus, but only if they perceive profits will drop, without that......good luck.
Unfortuantely my directv service has only been getting worse as they add more channels. Maybe its not related, but I have been experiencing the same kind of issues: audio drops outs, massive pixelation with fast motion or explosions, and out of sync audio and video. I always try and "re-set" my reciever, but that does not help. And according to the signal strength, I have over 80% on all the HD sats which the installer said meets their minimum.
Hopefully this is not the case with SAT signals, cause wireless connections must have limited bandwidth too?
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This petition is going nowhere. Look at its title: Compression-Free High Defintion Cable TV. I'm sorry but nothing is broadcasted UNcompressed. People need to get a grip on the situation. The problem is not that the signal is being compressed, but REcompressed.
With the recent wave exposure about poor quality HD cable signals, a petition has been developed by one of the hosts of the popular audio/video podcast AV Rant. In the original posting, it seems that this petition was instigated by problems the host and Audioholics' staffer, Tom Andry, had with his Comcast HD service and a few vocal listeners.
Interestingly, my local newspaper's business section this morning has an article by Bob Fernandez of The Philadelphia Inquirer about something similar:
"Comcast Looks to Bolster Faltering Public Image"
A Frank Eliason at Comcast is assigned to monitor the bolgosphere for venomous posts and respond. But, it may or may not help.
Unless real competition can be injected into all major markets, cable companies will never have an incentive to change. In most places you're lucky if you can decide between 2 traditional cable companies. Satellite is not available in many large cities either due to a ban by the building (way too frequent) or not having an unobstructed line to the satellite. Fios is only available in a few markets and from everything I've heard it's terrible.
Put all this together, and the question in my mind becomes "What incentive does any one cable company have to change?" The answer: Nothing. People will pay their prices for poor service because switching costs are incredibly high (a lack of choice implies a switching cost of infinity) and the alternatives are few.
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Feb 4th I had my Comcast cancelled after being embarrased by the Super Bowl being compressed to death. The problems I experieced ran the full gamut listed above. When I called for customer service I was informed that my equipment I was displaying the game with was "of a lesser quality". I cancelled right on the spot. I haven't missed TV as much as you might think. We upped our Netflix plan to 7 and have movie night every night. It's been wonderfull.
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