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servermonkey ([personal profile] servermonkey) wrote2003-03-31 03:28 pm

More channels!

Woot! Just picked up and set up a digital cable box from our local Comcast office.

It's amazing to me that people actually pay $9.95 to have the box delivered and installed. A well trained house pet could probably hook up the box to a current entertainment center. Well, maybe it's not quite that easy, but it was clearly labeled, etc. The only major problem is that the co-ax cable supplied wasn't nearly long enough to reach from the digital cable box to the VCR. It made me glad that I'd kept a small collection of co-ax cables in the hall closet.

BBC America, Sundance Channel, and all sorts of movie channels have really made my day today.

[identity profile] chandrax93.livejournal.com 2003-03-31 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
We got our installation for free (hurrah!), but they would only mail us our cable internet stuff if we wanted to do it ourselves. Over a week wait vs 1 day for internet if they came and installed it with the digital cable. Our house was was so horribly wired (6 splitters!) that they even came back and put in a direct line from the street to our internet for free! Wow, I have a good Comcast story... surprising what with the evil control over campus and stuff.

We definitely have that same collection of coaxial cables in our hall closet at home, too.