Charter close to buying Time Warner Cable

[kristie]

i think this is very interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/b...-time-warner-cable-deal.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0

 

[YosemiteSam]

IMO, huge companies shouldn't be allowed to buy their huge competitors.

Cable companies are large enough as they are. They are already using that power to negative affect of their customers. Giving them more power will not improve the situation.

 

[Tabascocat]

Well, Comcast got shut out because they said it would be collusion and would break antitrust laws. How would Charter buying them be any different in those terms? Yes, they are a smaller company, but I would think that the laws would remain the same.

 

[kristie]

i think this is very interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/b...-time-warner-cable-deal.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0

can the mods move this to the off-topic section please? I screwed up.

 

[AzorAhai]

I don't care for Charters cable setup, but their internet speeds and prices are pretty awesome. Hope this doesn't affect the pricing for that is all I can say.

 

[Nomad]

I kind of like Charter, but it's probably bad. I'm actually thinking about canceling the TV part of my cable and just having the fast internet. I'm waiting for Game of Thrones to be over or when they change HBO to more than apple products for the new direct pay streaming thing.

 

[Nomad]

I don't care for Charters cable setup, but their internet speeds and prices are pretty awesome. Hope this doesn't affect the pricing for that is all I can say.

I didn't like how all the HD channels were in the 700s. They kind of fixed that a receiver I got for another room has the usual 4 5 8 11 through 30something all in HD, but my older living room receiver they aren't. Also the DVRs don't hold as much as Directv and the guide and sorting of DVR'd stuff isn't as good as the Directv I had gotten used to, but the internet was so fast I took the pros/cons.

 

[AzorAhai]

I didn't like how all the HD channels were in the 700s. They kind of fixed that a receiver I got for another room has the usual 4 5 8 11 through 30something all in HD, but my older living room receiver they aren't. Also the DVRs don't hold as much as Directv and the guide and sorting of DVR'd stuff isn't as good as the Directv I had gotten used to, but the internet was so fast I took the pros/cons.

I didn't like anything about the cable. The setup, channel order, visuals on the guide and menus, bulky remotes, DVR. I just didn't like it at all. The Internet pretty much blows every other cable company away though. The speed you get for the price is an amazing deal, especially for gamers, streamers or downloads. For the same price as uverse, you can get 8x faster speeds. I actually have my Internet through Charter and Cable through Uverse with only a slightly more expensive bill. Im hoping since ATT bought Direct that they will offer Sunday Ticket some day.

 

[Nomad]

I'm thinking about taking my cable down to just the basic basic local channels only, and do everything else streaming. They say they have this but don't necessarily promote it. I could get the same with an antennae but at least with a cable box I would still have a guide and a DVR and I think it's $15/month. I really prefer Directv and had gotten used to it but when I moved to this new house it was so much easier to do everything with one wire/company.

It seems like what everyone is doing nowadays is cutting cable tv for internet streaming and doing locals over antennae. You can even get a SlingTV app now to live stream basic cable channels ESPN History AMC TBS etc., it's $20/month and you can't rewind/record though.

 

[jobberone]

$55B

 

[kristie]

$55B

 

[Christiann]

If this helps me get the Dodgers on my television, then I'm all for it.

 

[kristie]

should be interesting for my town because charter is the main cable company here.

 

[kristie]

good news for any dodgers fans here:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...rry-dodger-channel-june-9-20150604-story.html

 

[Longboysfan]

Had Charter TV and Internet - all good - moved now only 2 choices - ATT for internet and TV or Dish.

 

[Hoofbite]

Well, Comcast got shut out because they said it would be collusion and would break antitrust laws. How would Charter buying them be any different in those terms? Yes, they are a smaller company, but I would think that the laws would remain the same.

Have a friend who works in the industry and he said that after Charter buys TW, charter will then sell certain regions to Comcast.

He told me this like a week after the TW/Comcast merger was canned.

Said it was Comcast's back door option to acquire the parts of TW's system that they wanted all along.