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$%#@ Time Warner Cable!!
coasternuts:
Okay. They raise the bills at random. So I called and threaten to go to DirectTV. They give me $96/mo. (Digital/Broadband). A buddy of mine gets $76. Same deal. Same town. Same provider.
Fine, so I pay my bill for 6 months as that was the deal. It goes to $106. I feel like complaining again, because buddy is now paying $96. Instead I just pay it. Next month. $108. I'm pissed but do not feel like being on the phone for two hours. This month. $111.
Three increases in three months. What the $#!@??
Anyone else have similar trials and tribulations and other than cutting them off, what do you do? Just threaten to leave every six months?
SirPeale:
Nope. I did away with TV some years ago. I have one, but only watch DVDs on it. If there are TV shows I want to watch, I download them.
coasternuts:
I envy you.
Wife, and kids of 2 and 4, TV is a must.
Downloading?....hmmmm... bit torrent? Or something else?
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: Peale on May 11, 2005, 07:15:55 pm ---Nope. I did away with TV some years ago. I have one, but only watch DVDs on it. If there are TV shows I want to watch, I download them.
--- End quote ---
My girlfriend is like that. Never really watched TV as a child, doesn't watch it at all nowadays and refuses to let it be a babysitter when she has kids. Oddly enough, she saw me playing Pole Position and starting singing the theme song to the old "Pole Position" 80s cartoon - so I'm imagining the little she saw of TV as a child was obscure arcade game related Saturday Morning entertainment.
TV is tanking in quality as of late and with the ability to download shows it's hardly worth paying for cable.
P.S. - I used to have Time Warner until I moved into Cablevision territority. As much as I know you hate them right now, TW is a whole lot better with the digital cable than Cablevision. Time Warner's menus actually respond right away and it never crashes compared to the weekly reboot Cablevision's box requires.
Daniel270:
I watched my share of TV growing up... usually toons ranging from classic Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, Rocky & Bullwinkle and Smurfs to Transformers, Thundercats and a few others from that era...
Also was glued to MTV's Real World/Road Rules shows, Gilligans Island, In The Heat Of The Night, You Can't Do That On Television (through the 80's), Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and such....
Today's TV has NOTHING on the days of classic TV and the "reality" shows that are on now are rather stupid and lame... only time the TV is actually used as one is when weather gets bad and I need to see what's going on. Otherwise, it's DVDs and older VHS movies and game consoles...