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Comcast Disables VCR Scheduling In New Guide
An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has quietly launched a new on-screen guide for its cable boxes. What they're not advertising is that they've removed the ability to schedule VCR-compatible channel flipping any time more than a few hours in advance for people who don't buy the $20/month DVR service. What this means is that VCR owners are now forced to pay for Comcast's $20/month DVR service or else start their recordings manually. For us techies there might be a way around this, but ordinary VCR enthusiasts and owners of other recorders are left in the dust. Anyone know a good antitrust lawyer?" Raise your hand if you regularly use a VCR these days, too.
You mean like I can, by firing up a good old fashioned Bittorrent client at a total charge of nothing? Have fun paying DirecTV though.
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Fixed that for you.
Bullshit.
Look at the early years of the telephone system. Multiple phone companies, each with their own lines and subscribers. A business needed to have a phone with each major phone company in order to receive calls from its customers. The sky was black with competing redundant phone lines (slight hyperbole, but there are pictures of ludicrous pole congestion).
We've tried full deregulation, and it's messy.
Shut the fuck up and go back to your Randian basement.
-DwS