After TW dropped HDNet, I canceled the HD package that it was on. My fear is that most customers will blindly accept this and not do the same.
They replaced HDNet and HDNet movies with channels we already have or don't need... MavTV, Smithsonian HD, and RFD HD. MavTV is supposed to be TV for men, but it seemed to be car and motorcycle oriented, and we already have SPEED. Smithsonian HD might be alright, but we already have History Channel and Discovery. RFD HD is dedicated to rural programming -- rodeos and tractor pulls and crop reports. Really? Is this really what HD subscribers are clamoring for? The crop report in HD?
So much BS that TW replaced two great channels with three shitty ones...
I added the "HD package" just so I could watch NASA launches/landing in HD on HDNet. Now that they've scrapped that, I'm cancelling in the morning. I'm also calling my friends that subscribe to it (for Bikini Destinations...etc) and encouraging them to cancel, I'm quite sure they will.
Time Warner's slogan "the power of you" is utter crap also. A la carte cable would truly be empowering, I think they need to go with something that includes the word "bondage", or "slavery".
“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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After TW dropped HDNet, I canceled the HD package that it was on. My fear is that most customers will blindly accept this and not do the same.
They replaced HDNet and HDNet movies with channels we already have or don't need... MavTV, Smithsonian HD, and RFD HD. MavTV is supposed to be TV for men, but it seemed to be car and motorcycle oriented, and we already have SPEED. Smithsonian HD might be alright, but we already have History Channel and Discovery. RFD HD is dedicated to rural programming -- rodeos and tractor pulls and crop reports. Really? Is this really what HD subscribers are clamoring for? The crop report in HD?
So much BS that TW replaced two great channels with three shitty ones...
I added the "HD package" just so I could watch NASA launches/landing in HD on HDNet. Now that they've scrapped that, I'm cancelling in the morning. I'm also calling my friends that subscribe to it (for Bikini Destinations...etc) and encouraging them to cancel, I'm quite sure they will.
Time Warner's slogan "the power of you" is utter crap also. A la carte cable would truly be empowering, I think they need to go with something that includes the word "bondage", or "slavery".
I'm guessing losing Arrested Development was also a motivator
Haha, I forgot about that, but that didn't help either. Oh well, I've got the DVD's until it finally comes out on Blu-ray.