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TV sucks
Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/12/18 2:37 PM, wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:18:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/12/2018 9:37 AM, True North wrote: Cable sucks and is expensive.Â* Young people don't want it. My s9ns just stream what they want on their computers. Just recently a competitive competitor to our provider offered us a deal we couldn't refuse so we changed. The pod providers retention dept called and admitted they could't compete. Then when taking the old equipment back to the store...the old guys pulled out the hard sell...offering to beat our new provider by $15.00 per month. I was a bit ****ed so we said forget it...we've changed for two years unless we're unhappy with the new service.Â* I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't at least try to negotiate with the pirates. Problem where we live is that Comcast is the only game in town for Internet service and you need it to stream anything. The cable TV portion of our monthly bill is very inexpensive for "enhanced" basic service. The largest part of the bill is for Internet service.Â* I am not a big movie watcher, so I don't need a bunch of movie channels.Â* The cable service we have gives us all the Red Sox and Patriots games plus things like the History Channel, Discovery Channel, cable news like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, all the local network channels and about 100 other channels that I never watch. Mrs.E. likes movies but she just streams them via Netflix, Amazon, etc. or orders them "On Demand" occasionally. I am using DSL from the phone company. Comcast reliability is really bad here. I am going to watch how all of the new "plant" they had to install after Irma works out but so far it really does not seem to be making them better. My FIL has Comcast and he uses his Echo/Alexa thing a lot. He says the Comcast seems to be down a lot. We have not tried to quantify that but when I had an online weather station I had to turn off the logs because the hits were filling up the log file too much. My wife had Comcast at the club, with a high dollar "commercial grade" account and she was on the phone with them a lot. Part of the problem is the idiots they have at the call centers. She had the direct number for the call center manager and it still was not that great. We haven't had a Comcast outage since last winter during a heavy snowstorm in which we also lost power. Comcast was back on-line a day before the power company restored power. I was able to run a box and TV off of the generator. Before that I can't remember a cable outage at all other than an occasional minor blip that might last 15 seconds at most. Picture freezes, then a message appears saying the cable signal has been interrupted and then it comes back on, all within a few seconds. It could simply be due to Comcast techs working on lines somewhere. Depends on location. When we moved in to this house in 1979. Cable was not very good. Our area was one of the first areas to get cable back then. By 1980’s cable had lots of problems. A few years ago, they installed all,new cable, and is rarely a problem. |
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