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6 Comcast Secrets… Some of Them Dirty
A week ago, I stopped receiving some of the channels that I pay for on Comcast. The local affiliates for NBC and CVS showed a status code of “S0a00.” The “fix” was to unplug the HD DVR box and plug it back in. Essentially this is rebooting the operating system. I’m technology-minded, makes sense. The [...]
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I Saved more than 33% on my Cable Bill! More Savings on the Way?
Sorry if I sound a little too excited in that title. I’m choosing to looking at the glass as half-full. However, it is quite possible that one could look at the glass as half empty… I was overpaying for my cable for some time. Finally, after writing about trying to cut the cable twice, I [...]
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Links: Comcast Outage and NFL Draft Edition
Yesterday, I woke up excited for the NFL draft. It had been heavily publicized for the last two months. I was disappointed to find that Comcast, my cable television and Internet provider, was experiencing an outage. Right before the draft, they got the television working, but the Internet was down all day. I finally called [...]
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Major League Baseball and The Onion of Evil
I made fairly sizable purchase last Friday. I called up Comcast, my cable operator and said, “Yes, I’d like to sign up for the MLB Extra Innings package.” My wife and I will pay $160 to watch the next six month of our favorite team, the Boston Red Sox from our San Francisco area home. [...]
