Cable operators never miss a moment to increase costs to end consumers. I know the old analog channels use tons of bandwidth and hopefully this will mean more and more HD. But, companies are now moving channels to new "tiers" and then charge more for these channels. In the end it simply means if you want the same channels you have to pay more. RCN also has taken the opportunity to scramble any clear QAM HD channels as part of the conversion. I also can't wait until online services are on par with what you currently get from a cable company as I feel the cable companies are in for a rude suprise when this happens.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Cable operators never miss a moment to increase costs to end consumers. I know the old analog channels use tons of bandwidth and hopefully this will mean more and more HD. But, companies are now moving channels to new "tiers" and then charge more for these channels. In the end it simply means if you want the same channels you have to pay more. RCN also has taken the opportunity to scramble any clear QAM HD channels as part of the conversion. I also can't wait until online services are on par with what you currently get from a cable company as I feel the cable companies are in for a rude suprise when this happens.
It's illegal to scramble the locals. Are they scrambling those?