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Participating in the pilot program would have cost students $110 for a Slingbox and $55 each month for service, which could have been split among friends and roommates. Some students already use Slingboxes to tap into their home cable service, but individual boxes are more costly than those under Castine??€™s proposal...
...success of the Coop over low textbook prices.When Nicholas J. Castine ’09 came up with an innovative solution to Harvard’s idiosyncratic lack of cable television in dorm rooms, television enthusiasts at Harvard rejoiced. But the University’s refusal to consider the Castine??€™s proposal was baffling. While Castine and his team of engineers were able to detail a project that would have provided cable at little or no cost to the University, administrators stonewalled and then rejected his plan without offering a clear explanation, raising questions about transparency and their...
...Harvard University Information Services hired an outside consultant to evaluate the Crimson Cable proposal—but kept its results private until just this past week. While the report does raise some concerns regarding the equipment required for—and the liability to be borne by—Castine??€™s proposed business, the University’s unwillingness to transparently discuss these issues demonstrates an unforgivable lack of forthrightness. Moreover, the proposal itself—even with the supposed obstacles—seems quite reasonable. In terms of cost, the investment of $35,000 per house...
...plan to offer Harvard students five to six times as many television stations as are available at either Yale or Princeton, but at a lower price. This was not the first time someone had proposed providing cable in dorm rooms. But while other proposals had been extremely costly, Castine??€™s plan would cost the College comparatively little...
...Castine??€™s idea was to run the cable signals through House power lines, a plan that the project’s team of California engineers says should theoretically work as well in a skyscraper as in Lowell House. The only thing Castine required from the College to make his plan a reality was space in the House basements to store an estimated 50 to 60 cable boxes, each of which is roughly the size of a DVD player. Castine even volunteered to run the operation himself and to supply the estimated $300,000 needed to finance the project...