[OT] DTV switch-over (was: Mythtv users + Comcast subscribers)

[VirginSnow at vfemail.net]

In message <155dc4110905301641w60a1f846nae13a3aa775f8252 at mail.gmail.com>, Ben S
cott writes:

>   The DTV transition didn't "begin" in February 2009.  It's been a
> long, drawn-out process, going back years.  Analog cut-offs happened
> in 2008 in some areas.  But the nation-wide analog cut-off date was
> scheduled for 31 Dec *2006*[1].  For a few years, it was scheduled for
> 17 Feb 2009[2].  It was then postponed again (in 2009), to 12 June
> 2009.

Oh, I didn't know that it had been postponed.  I'd briefly considered
tuning in an OTA station right at 00:00 Feb 17 2009 to see the station
wink out...  Alas, I didn't have an antenna on hand.  From what you're
saying, it sounds like I didn't really miss much. :)

>   But hey, by all means, go on blaming Comcast for everything.  I hear
> they started the Iraq war, too.

LOL.  Of course they did!  That's why they have the new menu on
Comcast Channel 1: "War on Demand". ;)

> > And, don't forget... Comcast's new TOS declare that their cable boxes,
> > as well as ALL software and settings on them, are Comcast "property".
> 
>   This is not new.  They've *always* been cable company property.

One of my neighbors recently (two months ago?) showed me a flyer he
got from Comcast, describing changes to his TOS.  This was among the
changes the flyer advertised.

> > IIRC, the TOS even grant Comcast explicit permission to come into your ho=
> me and
> > physically change out cards in their CPE. =A0(No joke!)
> 
>   This is also not new.

This, too, was in the flyer announcing supposedly "new" changes to my
neighbor's TOS.

Maybe these TOS changes aren't new.  It wouldn't be the first time
Comcast did anything *misleading*, now would it?