I have not been happy with my cable company lately. If it wasn’t for the high speed internet, I would have been long gone a while ago. I have a high definition television, problem is nothing is in high definition. Now one could say, “well that is your problem… you shouldn’t have gotten a high definition television so early!”. Well I didn’t… it’s 2007 people, everyone should have a high definition television by now, and asides I got it mostly for other platforms like movies and video games.
So the other night while watching the Stanley Cup playoffs on VS. in non-HD, I called up Insight because enough is enough… I want my HD. After talking with the representative, I find out that not only does Comcast have VS. in High Definition, but Insight Communications is going to be Comcast by the end of the year. Furthermore, she stated “I hate the HD offerings on cable, that’s why I have a dish…” from a customer service representative! If I wasn’t jumping ship before, hearing something like this will definitely lose me as a customer. Asides from that, I am very tired of their craptastic DVR that has not once been updated in 2 1/2 years and still sucks to this very day.
So now I am researching my options. Either way, I am going to have to lose cable Internet because of the way my house is wired. This really sucks, because with AT&T DSL you can’t even use your own outgoing mail server, you have to use their’s to spam”. If they are sniffing mail ports, what else are they sniffing? AT&T does have this new U-verse offering which looks promising but have never been a fan of AT&T. then I could always just go with straight satellite.
If anyone has any experience with alternatives to cable, or DSL internet from AT&T give me a ping in the comments about your experiences. I would greatly appreciate it.
*raises hand*…I don’t have a hi-def tv
In regards to the cable/dish topic, why not subscribe to DISH for programming and keep the internet with cable. Sure, its $40/month for the cable, but you can hop on a good Dish deal right now for probably $50-60 /month. We don’t have HD channels, but we have a duel DVR (plays 2 different channels in 2 different rooms), Sirius music, about 190 channels, internet (1.5mbps download, 356kbps upload), and basic phone service which you have to because of the dsl service. All that comes out to be around $91/month.
The u-verse, for me is WAy too new and not something I was willing to jump ship for. In their words,
“With u-verse, you can record up to 4 channels at once. However, at this time you can only watch those recorded shows on 1 television. We will be doing a software firmware update to the dvr box later on in 2007 that will then allow you to watch any recorded show in any room.
By default, a u-verse installation comes with dvr, and then 3 set top boxes so you can get digital programming in your other rooms.
Here is a great site to find out how services are rolling out in our area.
http://www.uverseusers.com/