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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (4587)	6/8/1999 8:04:00 AM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13157

I don't know if I should ask this question here, or on another thread. If the latter, please let me know. TCI serves part of our local area. In the letters section of the Post-Dispatch today were 2 complaints from senior citizens. In one, the author stated that TCI would no longer rent him a filter for PPV, and if he wanted PPV he would have to pay-per-view, it would have to be digital. He was complaining that a lot of senior citizens, on a fixed budget,would have to forgo cable. The second letter complained about, not surprisingly, about high rates and lousy reception. This leads to my question: Upgrading cable will be expensive, the customer will bear the price, will it be too expensive (remember, our population is aging)? Will competition lower the price sooner, or later?