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May 19, 2005
That Was Then, That Was Comcast
On hold with Comcast canceling our cable TV service. Dawnise and I talked about it a fair bit - and I think I've turned the TV on (to watch cable) three times since getting service established, she's done only slightly more often.
The icing on the cake was that the Comcast DVR sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls - if you've ever used a real DVR (TiVo, ReplayTV, hell, even Media Center) it's failings are painfully obvious. I thought about buying a stand-alone TiVo, but that wouldn't address the "I don't care to watch TV" part, so killing it seems the right thing to do.
We figure we'll save a non-trivial chunk of money every month, and probably bump our Netflix subscription level by a disk or two. Maybe I'll even get around to watching the season of West Wing that a friend gifted us with a year or so back...
We're keeping their high speed data service - despite the fact it's going to cost me $10 more a month without bundled TV service.
Once the Comcast/TiVo deal produces hardware we'll probably try it again.
Posted by dberger at May 19, 2005 11:43 AM