Saturday, January 10, 2015

TIVO

I see that TIVO is now advertising on the Family Gazette, no doubt because of some mention of it in a post.  For about two years we had ATT U-Verse television and internet, and we had constant, recurring problems.  If we wanted to watch the news, I knew to turn the thing on a good 15 minutes before to make sure it was working.  ATT service people were good, just far too necessary.  U-Verse was just not ready for prime time, and ATT billing was so random we never knew what to expect beyond expecting expensive.

The final straw came when some technician told us we needed to rewire the house at an added cost of $250.  We changed to Charter, and I bought a TIVO DVR system.  It took me about 12 hours, miles of wires (mostly hidden in a cabinet), and several conversations with TIVO technicians to get the system up and running.  It works just great and costs roughly half of what U-Verse did.

A couple of weeks ago, an ATT U-Verse sales person, a young woman rang the doorbell and wanted to sell us on U-Verse.  Needless to say, she did not get far.

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