Just found that FIOS wants to bone me for another $10 a month to watch Pivot TV in HD, a channel I get in regular D as part of a already expensive package.
Kosmo: adding to my Pivot related weirdness, Comcast responded via email to a request I put in thru their site about adding Pivot. (Again, I do not get it in SD or HD.) They said while they have no plans to add it in my part of the country at this time, they do have it elsewhere and have made PivotOD (in HD) available on all Comcast Xfinity OnDemand stations.
Which is weird but great. Maybe you can request FIOS add the HD versions to your FIOS OD?
Guess I'm going to get to see Fortitude after all...
Pivot HD was there all along, it was just in the next level up in packages... Which after all my moaning I ended getting when i re-upped my agreement, along with faster fios, etc, for about what I was paying before. Had to add to Starz back, because in the words of Kosmette, there was no way she was going to miss her pirates (Black Sails) and men in kilts (Outlander).
My current beef is that i have to pay a Regional Sports Networks fee for channels I will never watch but just happen to be in the package. I find this explanation BS as it's basically oh look at us the poor "billionaires" who own sports teams and greedy universities are sticking it to us, so we get to pass along to consumers.
"This monthly fee helps to cover the rising cost of delivering regional collegiate and professional sports programming to subscribers. "
I find Frank Deford pretty useless these days on Morning Edition, but have to agree with his statement that our cable fees paid the EPSN, etc allow them to just go buy content and then make money via advertising. They produce little original content...
