Huh? 3
Just saw a Comcast commercial about the upcoming digital switch directed to persons using over-the-air television broadcast channels.
On a cable network.
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January 26, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Yeah, we see them here too.
I wonder if they are on the regular channels, without the cable? I’ve seen commercials for new customers for $10.00 a month for the bare bones basic. To keep from having to buy a converter.
January 26, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I wouldn’t know.
I seldom watch regular channels.
Seems a waste of bandwidth to stick them in channels that the target audience cannot see.
Since Comcast is the provider, I would guess–don’t know–that they have a right to insert some of their own advertising into the stream at no extra charge, but, even so, why should they subject themselves to unnecessary derision and catcalls?
January 27, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I mean ‘regular’ channels that are received through an antenna or something.