Ok, I get it. You are phasing out your non-HD channels.
I really didn’t mind that I can only watch my favorite channels from my cable box.
But I noticed you haven’t been reducing my rates for my basic cable channels. I didn’t mind so long as my son could watch his favorite channels on any TV with or without a cable box.
But now you have gotten too big for your usual britches. You are still charging the same rate that you have always charged. My son is upset. You’ve pulled the plug on his family based programming. And, you don’t even offer an extra free cable box to compensate for the blatant and deliberate degradation in your family based services.
WTF? Are you a spoiled selfish rock star? Money for nothing and your chicks for free? —pissed at your new found business ethics
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2015.
You had been receiving channels that were not intended to be part of ”basic cable” without paying the premium. Now, you think they owe you? When it was FREE to you there were no complaints. Who is the greedy one?
With HD, your son will enjoy many more family-based TV program channels. Now, bend over and pull those cheeks apart so that the fun may begin…
Give your kid a book.
Fuck cable companies!!! I pay over 200 dollars per month for cable and internet, and there are regular channels I don’t get. Not movie channels or sports pkgs, just regular-ass channels. So I say to you, eastlink, your days are numbered, you have priced me out, i now have a dongle that turns my TV into an android and will be cancelling the cable portion of my programming. Buh-bye, ya greedy fucks!!!!
just cancel cable streaming is so easy and so much better
If possible, send your kid outside to play or give them some kind of activity to do – lego, paper and pencils to draw with, making crafts, reading books, playing a musical instrument, etc.
Less screen time can only do your child’s mental and physical health good. We all do a lot of sitting but too much sitting is bad for everyone.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/sitting-is-bad-for-children-too/
OP, you read my mind. When I called the cable company and complained about this. It took me 45 minutes of not accepting their excuses but eventually they gave in. I’m getting an extra cable box for free. It is refurbished but it is free.
Cable / phone / internet companies and the term business ethics do not mix well at all. Cut the cord now and feel the freedom.
Ummmm, Eastlink is a Platinum Member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies so maybe they’re doing something right.
They are doing this solely to get more money from the people. That’s it. They can use any BS logic they want (“better TV experience”) but it is the almighty $$.
Switching from an analog to digital signal, they are making it so anyone who has internet service but no cable service cannot plug in a TV and get free cable channels.
But reason two is basically the same, by requiring the need for a A-D converter, then the cable subscribers can’t simply buy a $2 splitter and have cable in other rooms. If you want cable in other rooms, you have to rent a second, third, etc box. They may comp it if you make enough of a stink.