Reply to post: Re: "The more you tighten your grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers."

Re: "The more you tighten your grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers."

"The broadcasters are just hastening their own irrelevance."

by behaving like MICRO-SHAFT???

I already have to 'rent' set top boxes, even for a 3 year old LCD TV. It has HDMI output (and composite for older TVs). But, the remote control is a piece of CRAP, and 3 or 4 buttons practically don't work after only a couple of years of useage. TV remotes last 10 times as long. But "the cable" went to DIGITAL a while back. So I _have_ to have it.

So I expect "more of the same" then, a special box to decode whatever the hell they broadcast at you. Nothing different except the details. and the increased monthly bill. And not wanting to see anything on 3/4 of the available channels. And too many FEELING commercials injected into the content.

[I had to edit the topic, it was too long with the 'Re:' prepended]