After recently ordering my digital converter boxes from Comcast, I received a small digital converter for my non-HD set and a larger box for my HD television. After installation of the converter on my HD set I realized that I now have “On Demand”… cool. Then I started a perusal of all that I now have at my fingertips … lots of cool channels, hundreds of sweet, time-consuming, mind-numbing channels!
And what’s this? Adult programming? TV-MA movies at the click of the remote control! Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse, and Spice, all a click away. Titles too numerous to list!
Now, I have known that there have always been “subscription channels” available to porn lovers since the advent of cable, but the offerings are much more diverse now.
The only problem is that I don’t even want this junk listed in my directory. I don’t want to see it, I don’t want my kids to see it either. So I called Comcast, and asked them what to do. You would have thought I was speaking another language when I asked the helpful customer service person if I could somehow block On Demand and still get regular HD channels. “Whaaaa?” was his response. He then began to lecture me on the fact that viewing these things was a choice after all, and that I couldn’t “see” anything that I didn’t “choose” to see. Somehow we got disconnected.
Ahhh, choice! Comcast customers don’t really have a choice when it comes to their bountiful porn listings. If you want HD, you get the porn listings. Comcast knows where the money is. Hey Comcast, you can come pick up your box, it’s on the front porch.
Jim Jacobson
Lake Stevens
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