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OK, enough "TRASH THE CABLE COMPANY" talk. I run a cable company and my
customers get good service at a fair price! Cable companies are not all
bad, some are better than others, some are worse. Like anything else, an
outsider cannot understand how complicated someone else's business is. Lets
get back to Live Aboard topics.
Lee Haefele
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From: "Jeff Barfett" <>
To: "S/V Aramoana (Roger Chin & Eric Register)" <>
Cc: <>; "'LIVE_ABOARD'"
<>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: Spoiled Rotten
> Bad service by the cable companies is just as bad at the landlocked home.
> Number 1 reason we have Sat TV at the house!
>
> "S/V Aramoana (Roger Chin & Eric Register)" wrote:
>
> > At 11:50 PM 01/09/01, Aharon wrote:
> > >TV is for people who don't have boats.
> > >-Aharon
> > >
> > > > I have no TV for more than 7 years now. Your mind, spirit,
> > > > body and family
> > > > would benefit. If you are a news junkie, read newspapers.
> >
> > What I really miss is some of the shows on Life Network (such as "Tall
Ship
> > Chronicles") or Outdoor Life Network (such as "Lonely Planet"). We
don't
> > really watch the "mainstream" TV.
> >
> > Right now we only get 6 over-the-air channels. We're thinking of
getting
> > satellite TV (Bell ExpressVu). We would avoid the problems we've had
with
> > Rogers Cable (now Shaw Cable) at our marina in Richmond, BC. Seems like
a
> > lot of utilities (electricity, TV, phone) put us at the lowest
> > priority. Even the newspapers won't deliver to the boat. By going with
> > satellite TV, we'll never have to pay for another installation charge
> > again. And we don't have to worry about the quality of the service.
Since
> > one neighbour had Internet installed on her cable TV line, another
> > neighbour has such poor reception now that they've given up watching
> > TV. Response time is several days, sometimes weeks.
> >
> > Another advantage is that if we're not at our home marina (anchored or
> > docked), we'll still be able to watch TV. Although power might be a bit
of
> > a problem as TV's use a lot of power.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Roger Chin & Eric Register
> > S/V Aramoana, docked in Richmond, BC
> > www.geocities.com/sv_aramoana
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
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