On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:00:05PM -0500, Hal Cohen wrote: > Last week a salesperson from Verizon called and told me that FIOS TV was > available to > me. I asked her to check and make sure. She confirmed it. > > Further, I went to the Verizon website and put in my telephone number > 845-297-XXXX > which is a Wappingers exchange. Sure enough it offered me the Tripple > Freedom > Bundle which is Phone, Internet and their Premium TV package.
It may be done by township. Cable franchises are not county-wide. It's not available in much of poughkeepsie, still. Interesting that it is for you. > I'm now confused by what Sean said below. Does anyone know what Verizon is > really > doing to us in the Mid-Hudson Valley? Have I been selected as a test > customer? Who > franchises them, the town, county or state? The town. Re: Joe's HDTV trick... This is the same as clear-qam on your HD tv, it can only get unencrypted channels. This is typically only channels which are also available over the air in your region. All the rest is encrypted. The only possible alternative is a cablecard, which can only function in windows drm land. :( -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 "You can't engineer away stupid."
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