We Have A Tivo Again

On Tuesday I cancelled our DirecTV service. It’s crazy to think we have been a customer for thirteen years. We originally switched to DirecTV because we hated Cableone, and DirecTV had Tivos. DirecTV Tivos have been gone a long time now and we’ve been dealing with their shit DVR, while watching our monthly bill going up ever year. It’s stupid that you have to threaten to cancel ever year to keep your bill down. Fuck that. I’m not playing that game. This year our bill creeped over the $130 mark. Now that we have another cable provider, Midco, I thought I would look into them. They’ve been a great internet provider so far.

So now I’m paying around $130 for cable AND internet. I’m pretty much saving the $65 that I was paying for internet. And guess what? They have Tivos! We finally have and awesome DVR again. So we basically switched to DirecTV to get a Tivo and left DirecTV to get a Tivo again.

I wish cable and satellite providers cared about their customers and offered better DVRs like Tivos. The user interface is so much better. I guess they’ll feel the pain soon enough as fewer people subscribe, and more people cut the cord. If I lived alone I would have cut the cord years ago. I never watch TV. All the alternatives are getting better. Someday soon we will cut the cord, just not quite yet.