cable companies

anonymous

Hi Everyone,
Just wondering if someone can offer advice on cable companies in Prospect Heights. ..
Can anyone suggest a company with a simple package that includes lots of basketball and Law & Order (really, all we will ever need)?
Many thanks in advance:)

arielbl

usually either Time Warner OR Io will cover your block, so you don't actually get a choice of company :?

daveb

There's more to TV than L&O?!?!? :shock:

It all depends on where you are and what company will service your street. There's a website called 1800okcable.com where you can input your address to find out what options you have. Usually it's only one choice or going the satellite route. I have Cablevision and they're not the greatest, but at least they work.

dailyheights

Try DirecTV with a sports package and TIVO?

11238

Definitely DirecTV. Their customer service is amazing and you will probably pay less than Cablevision and get a lot more channels.

The only downer is that if there is a MAJOR MAJOR rain/snow storm, it will go out. I think in the last year mine went out twice for about 5-10 each time.

anonymous

Law and Order can be seen with rabbit ears and tin foil.
As for basketball, wait 'til the Nets arrive. It will be sooner than later

daveb

Snippet from an article on WIRED:

When will they turn off the analog TV signals?

Nobody really knows. The 1996 Telecommunications Act specified that broadcasters give back their old spectrum by Dec. 31, 2006, as long as at least 85 percent of U.S. households in a given market could receive digital over-the-air signals. But because no one can agree on how to measure that 85 percent standard, few Washington insiders ever expected the 2006 date to stick.

As a result, leaders in Congress have been talking about a "hard deadline" of Dec. 31, 2008, at which time analog signals would go dark regardless of how many people can receive digital transmissions. But the DTV legislation is still being debated in Congressional committees, so it's anyone's guess what hard deadline -- if any -- will be adopted. The broadcast TV industry has also been quite successful in blocking previous attempts to set a hard deadline.

Not necessarily. Any TV set hooked up to cable or a satellite system is unaffected. However, any analog TV sets that use an antenna will no longer be able to receive programming over the air after the cut-off date -- unless it's hooked up to a cable or satellite system, or is set up with a digital converter. It's unclear how much those converters will cost when they become widely available at retail.

anonymous

There was a time when people laughed at bottled water. I guess it's no longer a joke. Long live XMSR and Sirius. Obviously they know something