What if you could press a button, and that very second get a Video Error: 232?
What if you had more than 200 channels with crystal clear bands of digital color gradient and pixelated low contrast in night scenes?
What if you could select a movie and bring the whole Time-Warner hub to its knees, rebooting your cable box and restoring all your custom settings to our defaults?
What if you could call our award winning customer service department and find yourself trapped in a maze of menu options that have nothing to do with what you need?
What if you had to rearrange your work schedule when you take advantage of our on-site service so you can accomodate our work schedule?
With Time-Warner Digital Cable, anything is possible.
To their credit, Time Warner is much better than Cablevision. When and if I move, one of the criteria will be which cable company serves the area. I’d accept TW, numerous warts and all; Cablevision is a deal-breaker.
But seriously, no. My wife loves the HBO serieses (Um…that’s probably not right) (e.g. Oz, Sex in the City, Six Feet Under…but not Real Sex, dammit), and the only way to get HBO in our area is to have digital cable. So we do.
Although, there are some benefits.
I can make her watch English League Soccer at nearly any time of the day or night.
I have, at any one time, over 40 channels playing nothing but infomercials.
The Sci-Fi Channel is also only in the digital range, making digital cable a necessity for getting my Mystery Science Theater 3000 fix.
And, most importantly, I have been able to watch Real Genius over 15 times in the past three weeks. Ain’t technology grand?
Time Warner Cable in San Antonio keeps urging people to vote down the law that keeps them from having 3 consecutive price raises. (which is 1 increase each 6 months I believe… or 3 months).
Their CEO comes on and says, “If you vote this down we can provide you with better quality, lower costing service!”
Me to the TV: “The law isn’t stopping you from lowering the prices now…”
I must be in the minority, but aside from that little snafu with ABC that Time Warner had a couple of years ago where we nearly lost ABC, I’ve had no problem with them. I love my digital cable, I love Road Runner, it works fine with my ReplayTV and I’ve never had RoadRunner go out for longer than an hour or so.
However, when I move this weekend, I’m going to be forced to go with Comcast at my parents’. I have talked my father into digital simply because I want BBC America (I’m an East Enders and Coupling addict, what can I say?), but my brother says that their cable modem service leaves something to be desired. I’m leaving for graduate school in West Virginia in August, however, and depending on what the cable service is, I may invest in a DirecTV for my apartment. Since I tend to watch the more obscure channels and not much network television, I may be better off that way.