TWC Prices

[oz]

It's been awhile since anyone posted TWC's current rates. All I can find on TWC's website are the DigiPIC prices. How much for standard digital cable and individual movie channels?

[kermtfrg]

I called them yesterday and standard cable is $42.00 and basic cable is $11.30 in Kenosha.

[borghe]

That sounds about right... I believe my mom paid ~$40/month for all of the analog non-premium channels, and for $5/month more got a handful of digital channels (and the guide).

you are better off going with the lowest DigiPC plan I think... standard digital cable isn't worth basically $5/month for a EPG (enhanced program guide).

[summerfun]

Without posting all the prices, because there are too many choices and they are a little different for Basic and Standard depending on where you live, here are the packages you can choose with TWC.

Basic Cable- Just local analog channels (no box approx $12/month) or add local HD channels by renting an HD box. No extra cost for HD except for the box rental. ($7.95 / month more) This is actually a pretty good deal if you don't care about cable networks. You get all the locals, both analog and HD, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX.  You can have HD on your HDTV and analog on all your other sets in the house for less than $20 / month total.
 
Standard Cable - Local and cable analog channels (up to Ch 99) (no box approx $40 / month) or add local HD channels by renting an HD box. No extra cost for HD except for the box rental.($7.95 / month more) No premium channels offered in this package, you must go to digital.

DigiPic - Includes all analog channels from standard package, plus digital cable channels, HD cable channels, online TV guide, VOD and premium services. Check their website for all the details, choices and prices. (must rent a digital or HD box) (digital DVR box also available) (HD DVR box coming soon) Check web site for prices, too many to post here, but low end starts at $47.95 / month plus box rental. You can have digital on your HDTV and still run the 99 analog channels to the other sets in your house for free. (no box on those sets needed)

As you can see, the DigiPic is almost the same price as the Standard Cable package, but you get ALOT more. It is really worth the little extra.

The old digital package is gone. If you are an existing cutomer still on the old basic digital package, you should call and switch to one of the DigiPic packages. You will get more for your money.

[gparris]

Digipic plans are better than digital basic as all digital basic gives you is analog plus a few digitally-delivered channels. I know this because when a neighbor moved in and asked me what the lowest way to go, outside from going the dish route as she was installing Road Runner anyway as she works from home sometimes.
I said that you get over 60 more channels going the $47.95 plus $7.95 box rental route with a $5 extra charge if she wanted the DVR service and box. She had seen Tivo at her friends house and I showed her how my TWC DVR worked. Not as slick, but it worked for her as she said she didn't want to deal with a phone line setup and liked the picture-in-picture feature with the TWC DVR.
Now that she is settled, she is thinking about HDTV for her family room and was amazed at the HD channels we have in SE Wisc compared to what she got in Illinois (we get a lot of border-hoppers in southern Kenosha county).  
Now she rents a DVR for both family room and master bedroom, will upgrade to the HD DVR when it is available and uses just the standard cable without box for the 70 analogue standard channels  for the daughter's room.  I am taking her to go HDTV shopping this weekend...who better to  go with than one from our forum, huh?

[John L]

I just hope that they lower the price for Road Runner.  With more competition coming up, especially wireless internet providers, I heard many of the wireless ISPs will be able to offer high speed service less than $45.

Data Bit Rates will be faster than RR.  I have a friend waiting for some of these wireless ISP's to start up.  I might consider dropping RR for something FASTER and cheaper, especially if TWC refuses to lower it's RR price than I will definitely make the move.

-John L.

[Gregg Lengling]

how about 5megabit for 49.95 a month???

[Doug Mohr]

Originally posted by Gregg Lengling
how about 5megabit for 49.95 a month???

That's about the throughput I get on RR now. I think it helps that I can just about throw a rock at TW's new facilities from my front porch. When I build my garage, I'll be able to have line of site access to the Firstar Building and I might switch to a 10MB wireless at that time.

Doug

[borghe]

I have to say, Road Runner is great internet.. I have had numerous problems with TWC in troubleshooting, and will never go back to them for cable TV (sorry mhz40), but as far as Road Runner goes when it's working (vast majority of the time), it is FAST.

oh, and it is only $45/month.. if you are paying $50/month, call TWC and DEMAND that you be credited back to January of 2003. Most CSRs will follow up with the line "Well, it's your job to pay attention to price changes and notify us. It isn't our responsibility." If they say this, just used the line I got to speak to a manager with:

"So if my bill would have gone up $5/month, would it still have been my responsibility to notify you that my bill was going up and that you should charge me more? So you will only automatically adjust the customers bill if it goes up, not if it goes down?"

I got 13 months of credit applied to my bill with that.

also, don't put your hopes on wireless for now.. we have wireless at two offices in our company and they max at (best we can buy) around 1.5Mbps.. I asked what the chances were of them going faster and they said in the near future they probably wouldn't be. While consumer level broadband has increased tremendously in speed for us while only increasing slightly in cost, it has stayed the same in both speed and cost relatively for backbones. 1.5Mbps is a hell of a lot cheaper for us now, but for an ISP that OC3 is still costing them an arm and a leg.

[StarvingForHDTV]

If you buy your cable internet through Earthlink instead of directly from TWC it's $41.95 a month.  With all of the fees and stuff it comes out to $44.30  I switched from Road Runner a while back.  If you are a cable TV customer, it might not make sense to switch.  Earthlink cable is the same speed and TWC does all of the service calls and billing.

Starving