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To: Eric L who wrote (54510)	5/11/2007 1:47:28 PM
From: dave rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110623

I too have comcast service for internet, tv and phone. I contacted the representative and said I was anticipating switching to Verizon service for $50 less. After some hemining and hawing they agreed to match the price and installed a catv box to allow better coverage. This will be a savings of about $500 per year with a year guarantee on the price. The problem I have is that with the new system I am unable to program my DVD and record programs I may like. I called the Comcast rep and they finally explained that it was not possible to record dvd unless I ordered another cable box that is similar to Tivo. Cost an additional $7 per month. Has anyone had similar experience and solution? Suggest everyone contact Comcast for price reduction as in my area they are a monoply.

To: Eric L who wrote (54510)	5/11/2007 2:26:09 PM
From: Bob	Respond to of 110623

I ordered FIOS TV a couple of weeks ago, I have had their phone service since day one, and their FIOS internet for a few years. No complaints on phone and internet. The best I could get them to was $109.99 for the 3 services (TV,Phone, Internet)in MD. Yesterday, I cancelled the TV and went back to my satellite, Dish Network. I had that multiroom DVR with FIOS, one problem with it I didn't like, my wife didn't like, and the kids didn't like: You can't stop and rewind TV except on that TV. With Dish Network, we have the DVR in bedroom, they run a splitter to the family room. You can stop, pause and rewind both those TVs at any time. I pay $5 per month for that. With the FIOS one, you can only do that on the one TV it is hooked to. The advantage to FIOS was that you could then watch 3 different recorded programs on 3 different TVs at the same time.

To: Eric L who wrote (54510)	5/11/2007 3:27:24 PM
From: LarsA	Respond to of 110623

Hi Eric, nice to hear you had a good experience with your FIOS installation, as I did. We went with the 15 Mbps down but I'm not sure you would notice that much difference since the other side usually can't produce anything close to it. But I have noticed that some podcasts from Apples iTunes for my iPod, say Sunday Morning TV shows (e.g. Meet the Press), download really fast these days - and often 4 or 5 podcasts at the same time. I've also noticed you get really good "TV reception" when watching international TV-on-demand. Also broadcast internet TV from say: streamick.com So it's a good thing to be ready when programming providers now are ready to start pushing it out fast! We don't have digital TV yet mostly because we really prefer the interface, capacity and features of our (3) ReplayTV DVRs. But Comcast is starting to give us trouble - moving HBO and Cinemax off their analog system. So we may go with FIOS TV soon. At that time we will have a really good reason to to get us some new TVs too... Lars PS your wife may have to watch CN8 here: cp.cn8.tv just double-click on the picture for full size. I guess one could "DVR it" in the computer...

To: Eric L who wrote (54510)	5/13/2007 12:43:10 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110623

You are getting the premium channels but what about HBO as you did not list it.

To: Eric L who wrote (54510)	6/20/2007 2:13:32 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 110623

I have had ATT's U-verse for about two months--ATT's version of the VZ offering. The interface is absolutely fabulous. You can scroll through the channels in the guide and easily record. The channels are logically grouped, e.g., the news and financial channels are in the 200's, Disney and other kids stuff in the 300's; movie channels start around 790. All the local over the air channels are 2-100. It's easy to record, several different ways to do it. I am quite impressed with the service, and it's a lot easier to use than regular Time Warner cable.