--- In [email protected], MegaZone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Once upon a time sanr shaped the electrons to say... > > I did this and the card said it was an M card. Should it be? > > Sure, if that's what it is. > > -MZ > --
When the Comcast guys showed up at our new house yesterday, their first question was "why didn't you buy your TV, internet, AND local phone service from us (the ATT DSL installer had killed our phone service the day before making the internet access work). Fortunately or unfortunately, the DSL supervisor who was working Saturday took just a few nanoseconds to discover the first guy's error and restored our phone service, meaning I'm stuck with the 1-year ATT contract. Turns out that even though when I first planned communications services for the new house the Comcast folks had told me they didn't offer phone service at my address, what they'd MEANT to say was that they didn't offer it because there wasn't a completed HOUSE here yet! (I'd have saved a BUNDLE on a service bundle). The only way I could get a lifetime service TiVo contract on a new box was to buy it directly from TiVo, so when the Comcast installers showed up with their cablecards they didn't have a TiVo to put them in, and THEY gave another sales pitch for their own DVR, stating, in essence "these cablecards are the devil's work; we GUARANTEE you won't be able to install them yourself." I don't know how much of that is "market your own stuff" bravado (I'd told them I knew I could use either one M or two S cards in my box, and they responded that there WAS only one kind of cablecard). Are they the nuisance the cable companies want users to believe, or is simply that they lose the ability to collect extra revenue from their proprietary boxes? Thanks so much, Jim Robertson
