Im moving to Quantico, VA and the base says we can have on of these 4 services: Cox Cable Comcast Adelphia Cable Adelphia Cable TV What is the better one for a soccer fan? Ill list my priorties: ESPN2 FSW Telemundo/Telefutra/etc also which ones offer high speed internet cuz that will prob be the factor in convincing my dad to get it.
I can only fill you in on Comcast ... ... Telefutura/Univision and Telemundo are all offered on non-digital. There is no hope whatsoever of ever having Fox Sports World. I do not know if, with digital cable, the MLS Shootout package is available. In terms of sports, Comcast also does not offer ESPN Classic or ESPN News on their non-digital package. I think ESPNNews might be with digital cable. Ed
I have Cox Cable in Fairfax county. They recently converted to digital. With it I get FSW and Comcast. In order to get FSW you have to buy the Sports tier package. I also have Telemundo and Univision at no extra cost. I don't have Telefutura but I THINK I can purchase it. By having Cox Cable I also save on my High Speed internet connection with them. So far I'm pretty happy with the service. And going from dial up to cable is straight from heaven. Go to their site at Cox.com and check out their FAQ
I have Cox Cable, in Stafford County, where Quantico is located. Digital is available depending on the area of the County you are in. I have Digital, and get Fox Sports World, Comcast, ESPN 1 and 2, and the Shootout is available. In the past, with analog, frequent outages were a problem. However, since digital came in, outages have been very rare. Here is the contact info for the Fredericksburg Cox office. Mark http://www.cox.com/Fredericksburg/Service.asp
Adelphia is in the sh!tter and is likely to be gobbled up by someone. A good guess would be Comcast. Comcast=evil (no FSW). Cox=crappy, but not evil. I had Cox when we lived in Virginia. It was fine. Most cable companies suck, but at least they had the programming I wanted. And you can get the shootout via PPV.
Compare the cost to Direct TV before you make a recomendation. In some areas Direct TV is cheaper then cable. I don't know if thats the case for where you are moving to, but it would hurt to make sure.
I had Cox Digital when we lived in Centreville. It was okay, nothing great. I say that because reception was fuzzy at times and I would get the blow off when I called to complain. In Sterling, Adelphia services Sterling but does not service our neighborhood (???) so I went with DirecTV. I have nothing but good things to say about this so far and I get a much clearer picture than I did with Cox. We are paying five bucks less per month with DirecTV than we did with Cox Digital and we have two tvs hooked up and the same channels although I'm paying something like five bucks more per month for local channel access (sucks, but the bill is still lower than Cox).
I live in Fairfax and Cox is great, however, if Adelphia offers FOX Sports World and the others, go with them, that way you can be one of the very few to see This Week in Soccer. My friend Mark Bushman hosts and I am often featured reporting from DC United and Nats games.
i find it so crazy that i have comcast in richmond and get FSW yet is a much bigger soccer community, they cant get it.