I gots sumptin to say. While I await getting some piece that will make my Tivo work again (because apparently everything time I get a new cable box, a new piece must be purchased), I have to deal with the Time Warner interface in an attempt to watch live television.
Can someone please explain to me why when I’m paying eighty-something dollars for cable and internet that I have to deal with the hassle of navigating a menu that lists hundreds upon hundreds of channels (90% of which I don’t have). Yes, I understand the concept of ~showing me what I’m missing out on~… BUT I DON’T CARE, TIME WARNER. The regular channels and HD channels are separated by hundreds of channels I don’t have which means I have to remember the actual channel numbers. Look Time Warner, I don’t have space left in my brain to remember that 710 is CNNHD. While we’re at it, why are you providing me both regular CNN and CNNHD… if I have an HD box and HD television can’t you just take away the non-HD channel. I feel like cable companies can all just be crappy because no one can really do anything about it and just start up a competing cable company of their own.
Also, while we’re complaining about television, I hate the black boxes on the side of the screen even on some HD channels. Can’t they figure this out already and make the picture fit the whole screen?? Lastly, Project Runway has not kept my interest this season, I haven’t caught a single episode of Top Model yet, and Gossip Girl has been kind of disappointing compared to last season. The question is will I actually care about any other shows once the actual season begins on all channels?
Maybe I should go read a book. Peace be with you.
For someone with lots of time on your hands, you’re very angry.
(JK, Time Warner is a fucking bastard and I hate them. I have TimeWar stories that would make you cringe.)
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What doesn’t help is the lag between the time you squeeze the channel numbers and the time that they appear on the screen. If you don’t realize until your second squeeze that the first one didn’t register because you weren’t aiming at the box precisely enough, it’s too late.. you’ve gotta wait for the channel to change or else you are stuck entering phony remaining numbers which ends up in the flashing “???.”
I’d say more because there really is so much to say about how terrible TiWa is but i won’t for fear that our hostility may flag homeland sec. department officials.
Patriotically yours.
p.s. i made up TiWa