Only one time in my life, have I ever been given free cable. It wasn’t asked for. It wasn’t an underhanded deal. The installer just happened to not put any trap on the line and hey, free cable for a few months! It was pretty cool and I got to know a few channels very well. Well, after a few years, and jobs, life moved on and we never had money for cable…until recently. Since the gigantic phone and cable companies are starting to battle on the content field, prices are starting to come down. So, I stuck a toe in the water and perused the local bundles for all the many offerings and you know what they were all offering? If you act now! You’ll get not 100, but 200 channels you will never watch with programming you never really cared-for! And don’t forget the 40 premium movie channels that all play the same movies, just at different times of the day! Plus, we’ve got the most HD channels of anybody, but you don’t really care, because your tv is from the stone age, but you’ll upgrade for this! We mean it! Buy now!
And that’s ok. The packages they’re offering might be just what some people are looking for. But, I’d like to think there’s a better way. How about I sign up for your service, and I get to pick the channels I’d like to watch? At the high-end, I’d probably have 20 or so and maybe one premium movie channel. I will never watch 250 channels. That will never get me to sign up for cable or television as it’s being offered by the phone companies right now. I’d just like to watch what I want. And if they could throw in a little DVR action to sweeten the deal, I’d go for it.
In this day and age, I don’t think this is an unreasonable request.