Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I would have thought with the way the giants played this season, *when* the giants were playing would have been the time to watch the red zone channel. On Thursday, January 3, 2013, Scott Stroz wrote: > > This season I got addicted to The Red Zone Channel. My son & I watched all > the time when

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Scott Stroz
This season I got addicted to The Red Zone Channel. My son & I watched all the time when Giants were not on. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > I am with you on this one Scott. I actually never considered the Ticket > until I was told that I qualify for it for free this yea

RE: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Eric Roberts
ilto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 12:02 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny) On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > yeah, I haven't given up the DVD part of the plan yet.

RE: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Eric Roberts
Good point LOL -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 11:56 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny) On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > If you have an AppleTV, and i

RE: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Eric Roberts
That is also with getting dvd's int her mail. I get just the streaming (no discs) and pay 9.99 a month -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 11:55 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny) O

RE: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Eric Roberts
: cf-community Subject: Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny) As long as DirecTV is the sole provider of NFL Sunday Ticket (and I don't move back to the NY area) I don't think I will ever drop DirecTV - but I will never tell them that. There is just no legal way for me to watch

RE: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Eric Roberts
bject: Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny) I think this is my third year since I cut out DirecTV. I have a mythTV server with 4 frontends throughout my house. 4Tb of raid storage that keeps both tv recordings and a slew of home videos. 1 Roku, 1 Wii that plays Netflix & 1 netflix sub

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
t; as a result, unless I want to watch Caillou or something lol) > > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:critic...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:52 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny) > > > "I

RE: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Eric Roberts
) -Original Message- From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:critic...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:52 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny) "I just canceled Cable about three weeks ago. HD antenna + NetFlix + iTunes + web content over AirPlay = no cable req

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
bwahahahaha... On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Sam wrote: > > I got a call from Fios asking me to add TV to my existing package. > When I told him my internet doesn't seem all that fast he explained I > should avoid using two different search engines at the same time. > > . > > On Wed, Jan 2

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
My wife's biggest complaint when we had only Internet and antenna was that she couldn't just surf channels. On Jan 3, 2013 1:17 PM, "Ray Champagne" wrote: > > I'll go back to Netflix when the Arrested Development show comes out, and > will probably cancel again after that. For me, it was never

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Bruce Sorge
I am with you on this one Scott. I actually never considered the Ticket until I was told that I qualify for it for free this year for taking DirectTV with me to Ga. I am hooked now that I can watch ALL of my Niners games. So I'll pay for it next season, and the season after next, and so on. Bruce

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Scott Stroz
OK..I literally laughed out loud at that. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Sam wrote: > > I did ask him what it meant and than I heard a sound like his head was > spinning so I let it go. > > . > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > > > What does that even mean? What a moro

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Ray Champagne
I'll go back to Netflix when the Arrested Development show comes out, and will probably cancel again after that. For me, it was never an economical choice, and the shows were always too old and could be bought/borrowed elsewhere. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Sam wrote: > > I looked up som

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Sam
I did ask him what it meant and than I heard a sound like his head was spinning so I let it go. . On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > What does that even mean? What a moron. > > Sad thing is, he probably has told that to people many times...and they > believe him. > > ~~

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Sam
I looked up some movies I wanted to watch on netflix and they had them. So I signed up for the trial month and the movies they had were just descriptions and weren't available to watch. Bastards, but it cost me nothing. . On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Thu, Jan

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Scott Stroz
What does that even mean? What a moron. Sad thing is, he probably has told that to people many times...and they believe him. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Sam wrote: > > I got a call from Fios asking me to add TV to my existing package. > When I told him my internet doesn't seem all that f

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > yeah, I haven't given up the DVD part of the plan yet. Movies still > seem to hit DVD first and then move to streaming a bit later. I know they > were wanting to reverse that scenario, but it hasn't happe

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > If you can afford to buy all that Apple equipment...why are you > worried about cost of cable? :D Heh - well I didn't buy it just for the cable replacement. but that's a whole 'nother discussion (that's been had a few times). -Cameron ...

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Sam
I got a call from Fios asking me to add TV to my existing package. When I told him my internet doesn't seem all that fast he explained I should avoid using two different search engines at the same time. . On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > So I got my monthly call from Chart

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
yeah, I haven't given up the DVD part of the plan yet. Movies still seem to hit DVD first and then move to streaming a bit later. I know they were wanting to reverse that scenario, but it hasn't happened yet. That said, I've been catching up on Heroes, Merlin (The British version), Dr. Who, Sta

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Scott Stroz
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > If you have an AppleTV, and iPad/iPhone or a MacBook, If you can afford to buy all that Apple equipment...why are you worried about cost of cable? :D -- Scott Stroz --- You can make things happen, you can watch things hap

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Scott Stroz
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > $20/month for my netflix Based on what the streaming selection was like when I left them, I would not subscribe to Netflix if they paid me $20 a month. -- Scott Stroz --- You can make thin

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Scott Stroz
As long as DirecTV is the sole provider of NFL Sunday Ticket (and I don't move back to the NY area) I don't think I will ever drop DirecTV - but I will never tell them that. There is just no legal way for me to watch the Giants every Sunday if the local channels do not broadcast the games...and ye

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I don't. I spend a lot of time on NFL.com though. ;) On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Ray Champagne wrote: > > How do you watch out of market NFL games? > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < > zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I think this is my third year si

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Ray Champagne
How do you watch out of market NFL games? On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think this is my third year since I cut out DirecTV. I have a mythTV > server with 4 frontends throughout my house. 4Tb of raid storage that > keeps both tv

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I think this is my third year since I cut out DirecTV. I have a mythTV server with 4 frontends throughout my house. 4Tb of raid storage that keeps both tv recordings and a slew of home videos. 1 Roku, 1 Wii that plays Netflix & 1 netflix subscription. We don't lack for content and the stuff we

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > It would be nice if I could get my Apple TV to stream Amazon Prime. > It would be a worthwhile investment then. This is one of the points I make about investing so heavily in Apple equipment. If you have an AppleTV, and iPad/iPhone or a M

Re: Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"I just canceled Cable about three weeks ago. HD antenna + NetFlix + iTunes + web content over AirPlay = no cable required." Case in point. We switched to direct TV last summer. I could do without, but my wife . . . . . All I ever watch is netflix now. I have recently watched Psych. I am now

Canceling Cable (Re: Charter is funny)

2013-01-03 Thread Cameron Childress
I just canceled Cable about three weeks ago. HD antenna + NetFlix + iTunes + web content over AirPlay = no cable required. -Cameron On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > Cable as a channel provider is going to die. The cable providers > have horrendous business models and cus

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
Cable as a channel provider is going to die. The cable providers have horrendous business models and customer service. This could be another nail in the coffin: Intel cable box could allow per-channel subscriptions ( http://www.wmur.com/news/money/Intel-cable-box-could-allow-per-channel-subscri

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > Yeah that's fine bad I said its really not a big annoyance. I was just > commenting on the fact that a charter emotes can't get the benefits of > their products being an employee because their service is not in the state > that they work. My

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Bruce Sorge
Yeah that's fine bad I said its really not a big annoyance. I was just commenting on the fact that a charter emotes can't get the benefits of their products being an employee because their service is not in the state that they work. Sent from my iPhone 4S. On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Mauree

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Maureen wrote: > If you have bought anything from them in the last 18 months they > are allowed to call you, even if you tell them not too and list your phone > on the no-call list. Ahh yes, I thought there was an exception like that in there... -Cameron ...

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Maureen
If you have bought anything from them in the last 18 months they are allowed to call you, even if you tell them not too and list your phone on the no-call list. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > I keep forgetting to because I am in such a hurry to get rid of them. I > need

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Bruce Sorge
I keep forgetting to because I am in such a hurry to get rid of them. I need to remember to let them know not to call. It's really not much of an annoyance as it would be from a telemarketer that I have no business relationship with. Sent from my iPhone 4S. On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Camero

Re: Charter is funny

2013-01-03 Thread Cameron Childress
Have you ever told them not to call you again? I am not sure if it completely applies since you have an existing business relationship with them (you are their customer), but if you need a new hobby: http://www.killthecalls.com/suing-telemarketers.php -Cameron On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:16 PM, B

Charter is funny

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Sorge
So I got my monthly call from Charter cable tonight trying to upsell me to cable tv (I only use the. For Internet) and of course I had to explain to them again that I have DirectTV and I have no desire to move away from them. He goes on and on and I recall that Charter is not in Co. So I told h