Cutting the Cord 2
Steve Wiegand explains why his familty decided to ditch their cable telly vision.
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August 20, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Pretty much my experience. Finally I stopped paying my cable company and they suspended service and sent someone around to collect the box. He asked if I would pay up and I told him to get lost, that service had been bad for two years with hangs and digitally corrupt picture effects that would necessitate rebooting the box, making an entire swath of channels ordered unwatchable. No matter how many times I called customer service they would never fix the unwatchable channels. I endured their nasty robot calls trying to get the money out of me. Finally, the quit and started sending more offers in the mail which are sent directly to the waste can. I have to say the endless cable shows about eating insects or going to countries where they eat said insects is pretty spot on. He doubtless didn’t have room to include a comment on the tv based on various levels of disgust that come from working in sewage treatment plants, sludge ponds or septic tanks that’s another big offering.
August 21, 2012 at 10:30 am
I used to have Comcast before I moved and my experience with them, I have to say, was excellent. It could be because we were one of the first areas they expanded into when they started to grow and maybe they had not yet over-stretched their capabilities.
And their choices on the “free on demand” were very good–upwards of a hundred movies at any time, most of them, of course, 10 or more years old, but, still a hundred movies. The “free on demand” of my current provider is nothing but promos.
The program selection, oh, well. But one can’t place all the blame on that on the messenger.
We both like mysteries, and there is no shortage of mysteries to record and watch later.