The Oct. 20 edition of the Manhasset Press included a letter from Dino Moshova urging that the Great Neck/North Shore Cable Commission work to allow Verizon FiosTv to provide television service over its newly-installed fiber optic lines. Mr. Moshova is entirely correct in stating that we need this alternative to Cablevision as soon as possible to counteract their monopoly. But I would also add that we should be demanding approval of this service because of the technological advances that it provides over the antiquated Cablevision service. It will provide all-digital quality (as opposed to Cablevision's atrocious 72 analog channels), more high definition channels, and multi-program recording DVRs as well as better on-demand selection and operation. All this at less than what Cablevision charges; more service, better price. To think that we are being denied this service by a commission more concerned with Public Access is ridiculous. No one watches it and no one cares (I challenge anyone to name at least one show on it).

We are one of the handful of communities across the country that are lucky enough to have been wired with fiber optics and are ready to go.

Verizon obviously thought that our community would be hungry for a new, faster, better technology and content for our flat screen HDTVs; they didn't count on a commission made up of closet Luddites. We should take advantage of Verizon's new service and move into the 21st century as soon as possible leaving Cablevision and their outdated, overpriced service to shrivel away.

Arnold Neimanis