Complaints about Cable

August 15, 2006 Posted by mitch | internet | 0 Comments

I've had Digital Cable from comcast for the last couple months, and I have to say, i've not impressed. The only reason I got it was because of the discount and free install which ended up to be almost the same price as what I would have done anyway. I don't like the digital cable box, and changing channels studders and really bothers me. The picture isn't that great over all... and these are all the things I can live with. What I really dislike is the price. I'd say its barely worth what I'm paying and I currently have it for half price. So, I need to call and cut back to my 12.95/month plan as soon as my discount runs up. Also, I'm extremely annoyed that about commercials in general. These big media company types are wondering why people are sick of commercials? And are currently trying to find ways to use technology to force people to watch commercials, while we the consumers are busy finding technology reasons to avoid commercials. Guess who's winning? Let me tell you what I hate about commercials and why I use my MythTV box to avoid them.

I hate the volume increase when commercials come on.

This extremely annoys me, I get my volume set so its just right when I'm watching a show, but when a commercial comes on its atleast 10 decibles louder than the show was. This is extermely annoying, and does nothing but make me upset, and I currently will mute commercials or change channels to avoid this. Which is a disservice to the people paying for these commercials, because I am no longer watching what they paid me to watch.

I do not care about tampons/herpes/joint pain/osteoperosis/etc...

I am an early 20's male, married, no kids yet, and I don't care about any of these things, and I will *never* buy them. I "ok" with watching very few commercials and much much fewer still even convice me to buy anything.

This is why I don't watch commercials and why I will continue not to watch them. This needs to stop, it needs to change. Instead these media companies should be using technology to give people what they "want" instead of force feeding us. We are entirely capable of figure out how to make things the way we want without you, why do you insist on thinking and treating us like we're idiots? .... We'll get what we want, with or without you... question is... do you want to be on making some money from it or not... you only have a few chances before the market will take it away from you. Just look at Tivo... they're still the king in the Commercial DVR market. Even after all the attemps and who knows how much money you've invested to try to compete.

Anyway, I'm done with my rant for now, will be interesting to watch the market over the next couple years.