Cable TV for Me

Well, well, well. After years of rabbit ears, we have finally entered the 21st century and got cable TV. Basic Cable that is; the $12/mo. version. As much as it pains us to pay for TV, we couldn’t deal with the poor reception any longer. The net of it all, we now have 20 crystal clear stations. Minus the two foreign language ones leaves 18. Can’t really count the ones where they try to sell me stuff, so that leaves 15. The “text” channel is pretty useless and the channel guide is too since we have TiVo, so we’re down to 13 stations. I had 9 stations with rabbit ears and only one of those was spanish. I guess its worth a buck a station per month to be sure we can record Mr. Rogers and Barney daily. The upside is that Lost should be crystal clear too. :-)

I should rant about the fact that it took two technicians over an hour to simply install a splitter at the outside cable box… I don’t understand why technicians insist on trouble-shooting non-problems. I told the guy that the second cable in the cable box outside ran to the jack beside the TV in the family room. Yes, there are three cable jacks in the wall-box, but so? Is it really necessary to spend 20 minutes using your tester to figure out which one it is? Its the one with the signal once you hook it up! Good grief. And the guy put the tone source inside the house instead of putting it on the line outside so he had to keep going in and out of the house to change it from jack-to-jack. And if your gonna go thru all the trouble to figure out which jack is hot, since there were two(!) technicians, you’d think they’d put one of them at each end, right? I routed the signal to the jack in the bedroom myself, it would have probably taken them another hour to do that one…

Ok, so i did rant.