Last week was our appointment with Time Warner Cable to install a multi-stream cablecard in our Tivo HD (our holiday gift to ourselves.) Once again they sent a contractor who knew nothing about cablecards, much less the technical aspects of delivering cable — which I know because we had to spend two hours together while [...]

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A couple days ago I called up DirecTV and cancelled our service with them. A 10+ year relationship is now severed. Even though they kept telling me that I was an “A list” customer, they sure didn’t fight too hard to keep me — only making a half-hearted attempt to find out why I was [...]

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Well, its been a busy, busy holiday season so I haven’t written much lately. Okay, so sitting around and watching movies for a week between Christmas and New Year’s doesn’t really qualify as busy to most people, but I really needed that break! Really! Anyway, having put in significant user-time with the finished theater room [...]

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For awhile now, I have been mentally wrestling with the issues brought about by the release of the Tivo Series 3 — HD Tivo capability baby! When this device was announced late last year, we had a full-fledged DirecTV deployment in our home with 4 active receivers, and contemplating a fifth. In fact, we’d been [...]

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