When can I tell Comcast what the can do with themselves? That will be a great day for me.
I dropped Comcast about a month ago (felt great), and replaced them with a $60 over-the-air antenna. I get about 30 channels now, all free, and many in beautiful hi def. I get all the local stations, two stations that play classic TV (Andy Griffith, Lucy, etc.) I also get two stations that play nothing but movies, old ones but good ones, like On the Waterfront. All free.
What stations you can pull in depends on where you live. I doubt if you'll get much in a rural area. There are websites that'll tell you what you can get, by zip code. And you'll never get cable stations like the History Channel or Fox News.
Still, I never did watch much TV, so it works for me. Local news, local weather, old movies, it's all good.
We have DirecTV and it is pretty good, but it’s a tad pricey, we have Comcast for internet though, which is OK.
The message to the Comcasts and Verizons of this world should be that the only thing of value they have to sell is internet bandwidth. None of this triple-play bunk! TV is a waste of time. Telephony is better provided over the internet. Everything TV and telephony can do can be done better over the internet!
Of course, these companies got into the business long ago providing cable TV. They hoped to make a pile selling content on top of the legacy bandwidth monopoly granted to them by the various municipalities. For that purpose, they invested in content-creating entities. So, it will take a while for reality to set in. For creative dismemberment to occur.
They need a bath!