Comcast

[Raven]

i might add additional later on...

to keep the price low...

it's entertainment...

my dad having had seven kids
always said being quite pragmatic
that tv was cheap entertainment
but now adays thats not so true.

net flix is starting to loook good
but their choices for movies
doesnt seem that great... to me.

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by Raven

net flix is starting to loook good
but their choices for movies
doesnt seem that great... to me.

I had netflix a couple years ago..no cable...just rabbit ears
I LOVE netflix...they have every movie made to DVD.
very easy to use..and you always have a movie to watch.
I might do it again...just cant justify the coin right now

[Raven]

so right now
you dont rent two
movies per month?

if you have tons of channels
you don't need to i suppose

but they are charging
ten per month now
thats why i'm considering it.

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by Raven

so right now
you dont rent two
movies per month?

if you have tons of channels
you don't need to i suppose

but they are charging
ten per month now
thats why i'm considering it.

I havent rented movies for a while,
it wasnt 10 bux when I was in....that might be a limited number of movies you can get
Mine was 3 on hand at all times...no amount

[Raven]

unlimitted
but i dont know
how many on hand
at a time...

[Slingah]

I think its 2 for the 10 dollar deal......still cant beat it
I was surprised how quick they came too.......I saw alot of movies

[BigFish]

If they hauled the "idiot box" out of my house today I would not miss it one bit!

[EricW]

I have had directv since 97 and love it. I forget what the current rate is around 42-45 with the family package, and locals too. I also have comcast internet and don't have the expanded basic or better. I think they make you pay like 57.95 if you don't have any cable tv service at all. I believe I pay 42.95 for internet and 9.00 and change for the very basic 4,5,7 38, 56 etc. If I want to drop the basic (9.00) I will have to pay 57.95. which is more than the ~51 I am paying now so I am sort of locked into keeping basic. Which if I even cared about you can get anyway because it is sent into the house with the cable internet. THere are a bunch of ways of looking at it, so I pay 51 with internet and basic(which I don't use) or 57 for internet alone.

Confused?

Exept for extremely heavy rains, Directv is great! THey don't raise thier prices every january like comcast and picture and sound are great. I am still using same sony reciever I bought back in 97.

I am even happier now that I bought a sony HX-715 Hard disk recorder. It is like a tivo with no subscription. It will work my sony directv recorder and digitally record anything, and you can offload to dvd discs to permanently save stuff
Eric

[TheSpecialist]

Karl that box is called a SAC or Xbox. Also no job takes less than 2 hours as no service is so urgent that we cannot take the time to perform our work safely.

[Raven]

HX-715 Hard disk recorder

how much are they? $$

[Karl F]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Karl that box is called a SAC or Xbox. Also no job takes less than 2 hours as no service is so urgent that we cannot take the time to perform our work safely.

I know Bill, the tech has to do the service call in a prescribed manner.
Got nothing against the workers. the company sucks.. Even had somebody on the phone, one time when I called agree, same location, under similar circumstances, WE (verizon) need to take care of that.
DUH.. wouldn't it make sense to fix it right ONCE, replace the bad wires, connections, box, whatever, than pay a tech 2 hours minumum, several times a year? ... common sense disappears at a rapid rate, the higher up you go.... unfortunately, the poor decisions made up top, trickle down to the consumer, and wrongfully, the consumer gets pissed at the techs.... because that is the face of the company they see.