My folks in Winston-Salem have TW. It seems to me that their channels are much more compressed than ours (Cox in NoVA) - it's very common to see blocky stuff, especially with fast action. But lots of commercials, and the BBC channel, are much more compressed with Cox than some of the big networks.

There's a whole mess of stuff about the big cable companies that is as transparent as depleted uranium. Similarly, the call quality on cell phones varies a lot and some of it must be due to the way the companies run their networks. Lots of luck finding anything more than plans (HDVoice! VOIP!! Coming soon!!!1) so that one could make an informed decision...

:-/

À la carte channel subscriptions sounds like a good idea (the NFL and the NCAA would hate it, of course), but I wonder what would happen to things like local news. I imagine it would make it worse, as hard as that might be to believe... But maybe it would make things like "community access" actually thrive. Who knows.

Cheers,
Scott.
("Eh? What did you say? Try again?")