[ChR1s]

Comcrap is harping about the FCC's mandate for carriers to provide local broadcast HD content. Comcrap would rather you pay extra for anything & everything HD. Verizon will have no problem with their plubming to provide this HD content. But now suddenly *someone* has instigated a controversy with regard to Verzion's rights to telephone poles, and how they're exempt from paying taxes on their rights to them. SO, chances are good that Verizon will end up passing on their increased taxe burden onto their customers at some time. How timely, as Verizon has planned to begin major expansion of FiOS into more suburban and rural markets.

If I *could* get Comcrap, I'd go back to them for tv & broadband. For HD content, I'd just use an off-the-air antenna for now. DirecTV's supposed HD content is all marketing -- anything over SD can be called "HD." Fuck DirecTV. At this point, I can only hope FiOS makes it to us by the end of 2008.