Police Beat: Time Warner accuses Batavia woman of theft of services

I would like to press charges against Time Warner Cable for ripping me off on a monthly basis.

Luz Castro is a female, still a thief, but a female.

i cut the cable in time warner, thay way way to much money. thay rip me off on tv , and all i got was reruns. i got on air tv now and i injoy it more then cable

LOL! Good Call Mark. I have said this for years and years and years, but i believe we should be able to choose from a list of channels and pay accordingly. If you only want 40 channels that YOU like, then you should only pay for THOSE channels. Instead of paying inflated prices for a couple hundred channels that you have no interest in. Kind of like buying cafeteria food, you only pay for what you want. Lifetime, We, Oxygen, these channels would be like old mushy tater tots. Nfl network, espn, spike, and syfy are like the meatloaf :)

(double post..DOH!)

See Tim the only problem with your reasoning is that it makes sense to You, me and other consumers. I would love to be able to pick and choose the channels I want.

The most effective way to get the satellite/cable companies to alter their programming options is mass consumer cancellation of service. That is unlikely; millions wouldn't know what to do with themselves without it. So the second option would be for the entire country not to pay their bill one month. The third option would be to push your local government to unilaterally revisit the agreement with the cable provider. The threat of having to renegotiate thousands of municipal contracts might inspire action.

Physics question: how high do cable/satellite bills have to go before overcoming inertia? Unfortunately, the providers know the answer. ...So do the energy companies. As long as we behave as sheep, there will be wolves to exploit us.

A la carte cable has been proposed by legislators for years but keeps meeting the same resistance, small interest channels would be forced out without packaging. To that I say, that's the free market at work. If people demand a certain channel, they will pay for it, the masses shouldn't have to subsidize it for the few.

200+ channels from Time Warner...50+ dollars
20+ channels using a digital converter box...0 dollars
Not having to pay Time Warner Cable....priceless

I had to watch the last Superbowl for free on the internet (free live stream) because I only have over the air dtv/hdtv (free) with an antenna and fox wont come in reception. With the right technology today you can pretty much do around almost anything on the cheap. I will admit if Verizon would bring Fios to Batavia I would be tempted.

...Protecting small channels, Jeff, is PR. The only value the limited interest channels offer to the provider is justification to raise rates. "We've added twenty new channels to our basic service;" nevermind that they are self-sustaining shopping networks and religious programming.

Providers don't accept subscriber input on programming; they could care less. They are all salespeople.

The same old hoopla that drew people to Barnum's giant. 'There's a sucker born every minute!' (...Not P T Barnum's line- "There's a sucker born every minute, but none of them ever die" is attributed to Joseph Bessimer, a notorious Victorian-era confidence man AKA "Paper Collar Joe."

Gabor: If you're marginally handy and you have a relatively high outdoor location to mount an antenna, do a search on "Gray-Hoverman Antenna". It's fairly cheap and easy to build. This antenna will get you Buffalo, Rochester and most (if not all) of Toronto. You can also try a 4 bay bow tie antenna. It's almost as good.

BTW: If you do this, make sure you ground it.

C.M., no doubt and B.S. P.R. at that. I suspect there is a powerful broadcasting lobby that is effectively killing any chance of a la carte cable.

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