Comments on: Hate paying more for cable TV? Time Warner is taking a vote

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:34:00 +0000

If there is a raise in fees or we lose any of our chanels we’re leaving to another provider who can give us what we need. Time Warner will lose major business if they don’t have the chanels in question. As it is they are more expensive and so many customers were already considering the move. This would be a poor decision on their part.

By: JT

JT — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:35:29 +0000

From what I can gather, Time Warner seems to avoid telling us how much of their increases go toward higher fees for individual channels, and how much goes straight into their own pocket.

So—if Time Warner “gets tough”, increases may be less, but TW will probably actually reap more dollars from them.

If the cost remained a few pennies for most channels, a la carte would be great for consumers. Because all channels would lose many subscribers, however, a lot of channels would disappear, and those who still wanted any cable channel would probably have to pay a lot more for it. Therefore, the downside of a la carte might be that you’d not only end up paying a higher total to keep the handful of channels you want, but also lose other channels you now have in the “bargain”. I’m sure that’s an outcome that TW wouldn’t mind manipulating.

By: dm18k

dm18k — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:03:55 +0000

I find it funny that all you guys are doing is complaining,

I want this… or I want that…

You guys complain but you still pay your cable bill every month. (Well some of you)

To the people who want to the so called “a la carte option”

Do you realize how much that would cost you, if you had to pay per channel?

Oh sure your local channels wouldn’t be so bad, but upper tier channels that do not have that many viewers? You would be stuck paying high prices where the cable copy breaks it up tries to divide the cost among there subscribers.

Everyone wants something for free, you want your cable for free; apply for a job at who ever is your service provider. Better yet cancel your service buy an antenna and get your local channels and stop bitching about the prices. Costs of business are going up, Cost of goods are going up, Cost of my pay check staying the same, it is up to you the consumer to see what you need and what you don’t need in life to live. Cable isn’t of them. If you’re bitching about TV prices going up try getting your fat ass off the couch and try doing something with your life instead of spending $120 a month to waste your life away.

Few Ideas…
Spend time with your family
Save the money go on a vacation
Go for a walk
You spent 5 minutes reading this now spend 5 minutes thinking of something to do besides watching TV

You are the consumer you are the idiot that keeps spending the money on your cable bill, you are the one the blame about prices going up because you are watching to much tv and the programs track how many viewers, more viewers = more money in there pocket, less viewers = less money in there pocket

Time Warner Cable is doing the right thing putting the choice in our hands instead of them just saying ok and passing the rate increase to the customer. Good for them, at least someone is standing up for you as a consumer.

Maybe you should stand up to your provider and cancel or find a alternative to watching TV

By: Don Pearson

Don Pearson — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:28:35 +0000

Don has lived in Redondo Beach for many years since I retired from the military in 1957. signed up for cable TV then the internet. Im and old man now i’m war disabled and retired. So all I have how is my computer and Cable TV. I owe TW money so it looks like I will lose my TV and computer soon. can’t keep up with the payments. It buy food or pay TW. So if prices go up, then im will not have anything.

By: TJS

TJS — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:30:49 +0000

I don’t think I should have to pay for channels that I don’t watch, like programs I can’t understand or if I’m not into sports, it should be or choice.
Soon with prices going up on everything no one will be able to afford to pay for anything, then we will see how the large corperations servive.

By: EC

EC — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:33:22 +0000

Get DishNetwork!

By: H8Cable

H8Cable — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:16:19 +0000

How about a 4rd option: “Time Warner top current and retired managers accepts less, realizes that this is the cost of doing business.”

By: H8Cable

H8Cable — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:11:30 +0000

Cant get it at my apartment!
So I and the other tenants are either no TV or Totally Worthless Crap!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:56:29 +0000

Stop watching TV entirely. You can watch the few good shows on DVD or on the internet streaming anyway.

Wait, ISPs are fighting hard to fight net-neutrality regulations in order to block network streaming of video to preserve their revenue. Go FCC and your continuing efforts to force ISPs to treat all packets equally!

By: jgc711

jgc711 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:25:02 +0000

thanks…i hope they were able to answer most of the complaints…

By: Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress

Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:56:35 +0000

I’ve been trying to find time to type it all up. Working from home today to do so… Will try to post this week. No, really.

By: jgc711

jgc711 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:53:38 +0000

hey tamara, i thought you’re going to have a meeting with the top echelon people at twc (socal) this november…what happened to that?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:18:38 +0000

Hey Time Warner, here’s an idea. Why not let US decide what is on our cable bill? If you whine about ESPN charging $4 per subscriber, why don’t you let the individual subscriber choose whether to pay that four bucks or not? Stop whining about the fees channels are charging and put it directly to us instead. I’m sure we’d be able to put the broadcasters in their place, right?

By: Le

Le — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:34:33 +0000

The cable companies can rise their price as much as they want . I don’t really care because I could not afford to pay for service long time ago.

By: vernon sorenson

vernon sorenson — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:08:55 +0000

don”t these channel make enough . i like time warner they alway been fair with me.

By: Dino

Dino — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:33:57 +0000

Wen we signed up for TW Cable, we were told it would cost about $60 per month for both TV and their high speed internet connection. The bill has never been that low in the two years we’ve had it. In fact, almost double for basic/Spanish and internet.
At least once a day the TV screen recedes into a noisy snowstorm.
If this is highspeed, when it is working at all, I don’t want consider what non-highspeed might be like. It sometimes takes more than five minutes to simply be connected to the internet. Once on, it can take several more minutes to reach a website, or even Hotmail. Then there are interruptions during which the computer is frozen while some kind of signal is being sent. Calls get the response that they are aware of the problems, but no indication that anything is being done.
No, they should not pay tribute,

By: aceofspades

aceofspades — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:12:07 +0000

It’s absolutely disgusting that cable companies get off charging this kind of money. I can’t wait till online proliferates beyond the point it’s at now. One of my favorite shows is The Office. Well, it turns out that my parent company in China has Mangers meet Friday their time, which rolls into my office schedule. I have gotten so used to watching The Office online, that is how I do it now (my DVR also records it, but I end up fighting my wife for the rights haha).

I hated Cox, and I hate TWC more. Tamara, I was laughing so hard that Food Network, and Weather Channel think they can demand higher prices (with the internet in the 21st century the Weather Channel is as close to obsolete as you can get!).

I love Directv, and I do miss VS. I think it’s some TWC hold out or something, but I hope directv wins. I love how TWC is learning from their dispute with directv, and trying to shove it back in the faces of their own customers… screw cable!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:41:11 +0000

I think that if TWC was interested in the response being impactful, they would post the results and comment for the public. When you comment, it goes into a black hole- just like their customer service department and their Vice-Presidents inbox.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:29:31 +0000

The pay tv market, such as cable and satellite is bound to evolve into an entirely new structure over this next decade. If things move in the general direction that they are now, online access for cable stations will open up and create a new marketplace. Cable companies such as TWC should be forecasting these models and begin to move gracefully into the future to find how to profit in the new ways, rather than just stand pat and whine. Internet-based access to more cable-based material will follow the customer’s desires- to pay for the things they want and discard the rest. You can see the writing on the wall with new sites, such as Clicker.com that brings a large variety of web-accessed material to one user. I can see how even the social media communities, such as Facebook can be able to create customizable interfaces for fans of different shows to have fan-groups- all viewing the content and chatting with one another about it…the advertisements targeted to that specific viewer-group. In the meantime, TWC should should make lots of noise, whine loudly, etc..as it is the wailing cry of the dying dinosaur. It’s now time to go back to Hulu and see what’s on tonight…lol.

By: Bobomo

Bobomo — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:12:50 +0000

How about a 3rd option: “Time Warner accepts less profits, realizes that this is the cost of doing business.”

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:01:11 +0000

This is what works for me: I subscribe to TW’s cheapest offering, which once was $12/mo & now is $20/mo. I also subscribe to Netflix for $16/mo and get all the movies I want to see along with HBO and other great cable TV shows.

By: Bob Quinn

Bob Quinn — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:11:26 +0000

GET tough