I was kidding about working for TW.
Baldimo's the cable guy when he's not out saving the world.
Dittos from Austin! Time Warner Cable S**KS!
I couldn't agree with you more. Time Warner Cable in Austin, Texas has riled me to the point that I'm devoting a large part of my website to exposing their poor customer service. I've even registered a domain name to reflect my dissatisfaction!
Please feel free to visit Edit [Moderator]: Link removed and read my story.
That's it?
That's the whole expose?
I'm in Austin.
I ended up getting Dish just because Time Warner was just getting too expensive, no problems at all so far.
check the specials at SBC
discounts for phone, dish, internet.
I'm happy, I'm getting a lot more for my money.
Two of my partners , who live further to the boonies than I, each have dishes. When they get really bad rainstorms or snowstorms they cant acquire a signal and they lose whatever theyre watching. So thye call me to run a CD for em. 'I usually respond with an -I spit on your shoes with a giant loogey from the depths of my lungs" so they get my wife to do it.
Our cable is called "ARmstrong" and is a right wing Evangelical , so every Sunday there are many versions of JEEYZUS LOAVES YEW, that kinda ****. The rest isnt too bad , although they try to control the "packages" we get.
Like if I want HBO and the Sopranos, I get a WADF "God squad" station pitched in. Imagine HiDef sermons .
Kicky, you are just overwrought .
reception isn't a problem here, haven't had any storms since getting the dish.
With the setup you can record all sorts of ****, so if it does go out, you can watch something you recorded.
I like how the controls work better too, the little I've fooled with them....
Like (and this is a real plus) you can lock and hide any channels you want, for 2 adults in the house, that means any channels we wouldn't watch anyway, like the kid channels, god channels, shopping channels, and since neither of us are fans, sports channels. So nore more flipping through screen after screen.
also, the remote, everythings all in one....so, for us, a good deal
and one bill each month instead of 3.
Crazy people just haven't figured it out yet.
The Post Office doesn't run the Cable company.
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It's getting dark.. really dark... (humor - for those that might need the hint)
I am really scrathing my head right now....
I have this big metal thing called an antenna up the side of the house. Mostly we keep it pointed towards NYC, but when I want PBS I have to go outside and manually turn the thing to face Albany.
(We had cable for a couple of months, didn't really watch it - we just kept flipping channels to try and find a show between commericals. Got bored with that and cancelled it. Eight channels are plenty if you ask me.)
Who hooks up cable through their DVD player??? That's just a silly idea.
well welcome to the world of "Digital Rights Management" it's going to get worse before it gets better
Green Witch wrote:I have this big metal thing called an antenna up the side of the house. Mostly we keep it pointed towards NYC, but when I want PBS I have to go outside and manually turn the thing to face Albany.
(We had cable for a couple of months, didn't really watch it - we just kept flipping channels to try and find a show between commericals. Got bored with that and cancelled it. Eight channels are plenty if you ask me.)
Personally, I'm with you 100%. I really don't care for TV. Left to my own devices, it wouldn't get turned on for days.
However, I'm 1/2 of this enterprise. The other half really adores movies. Too me it'll always be expensive, but it's less than having a partner that prefers drinking, drugging and carousing....I know exactly where he is right now....home and happy.
I don't know what you are paying for cable Chai, but you might want to check into Netflix or such. My neighbor tells me it's cheaper to do that than pay for cable and if he feels like watching sports he goes into town to the local pub to watch and eat the free hot wings.
Is that the one where you order a movie, if comes, you send it back, etc.
if that's the deal it wouldn't work.....in addition to the dish......we have a blockbuster down the street and he's got that deal where he can take out 3 movies at a time, keep them as long as he wants, and can get as many as he wants for one set price a month.
I'm tellin' ya....the boy LOVES movies....
Chai Tea need to compare notes with this fella
cable, hbo, and blockbuster pass
18 months over 700 movies from blockbuster they can give you the count if you ask them
Kicky, never let those morons try to hook up anything for you. The company I work for just started installing cable because we were tired of going back to houses to to fix the mistakes the cable company kept making.
If you want to hook it up yourself take an A/V cable (the one with a red, white, and yellow plugs) and hook it up to the out of the DVD player and put it into any available input on your TV. Switch your TV to the corresponding input, put in your porn and your all set.
Hey, I forgot about this thread! Actually, now that I've moved, I decided to try Direct TV this time around. It's cheaper. I like that. It gets hooked up Monday. I'll let you all know whether or not it blows.
InfraBlue wrote:You all watch TV?
Yeah, I know, it's not what all the cool kids are doing, but dammit, I'm my own man!
