Another Motivation to Cancel Cable

[SADShooter]

I've been happily using a Logitech Harmony 650 for a couple of years. TV/DVD/Cable/Audio remotes went into a box, location now unknown.

So Time Warner unveils a WONDERFUL! NEW! EXCITING! channel lineup, apparently including a firmware update which altered/wiped out the control programming in the Logitech remote. Updating it requires using the command on the original device remote, which I can't find.

Grrr.

[Brad Johnson]

The firmware update shouldn't have affected the remote at all. It's an independent variable.  Remote codes are available online.  All you need is the model number from your TimeWarner box.

But, before doing anything rash try putting fresh batteries in the remote.

Brad

[Boomhauer]

The money I save by not having it is more than enough to justify not having cable/Satellite.

Netflix, baby, netflix

[roo_ster]

The money I save by not having it is more than enough to justify not having cable/Satellite.

Netflix, baby, netflix

One day we will have netflix.  Until then, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and bargain bin DVDs.

[Kingcreek]

I haven't paid a cable bill since I sold my tv in 1996. That's real savings.

[Ben]

But without cable, how will you have fine programming available like the show "Mountain man plus 27 kids drives ice road truck to airport to fly bush plane to dredge for gold under the ice and then catch crabs and then go home and drill for oil in the backyard to make money to prep for doomsday but then change your mind and sell some of your stuff to a pawn shop and put other stuff in storage and then go on a naked cooking competition and come back and decide to live in the Yukon and get your crappy snowmobile stuck every other episode"?

[Brad Johnson]

Sasquatch and aliens.  You left out Sasquatch and aliens.

Brad

[Boomhauer]

Sasquatch and aliens.  You left out Sasquatch and aliens.

Brad

And I didn't see a single mention of Sharknado or Sharkalanch.

[SADShooter]

So, I found and used the original box remote (with new batteries). The search and menu functions are hosed in parallel to the Harmony.

I'll be on the lookout for Sharkalanche, thanks.

[bedlamite]

So, I found and used the original box remote (with new batteries). The search and menu functions are hosed in parallel to the Harmony.

I'll be on the lookout for Sharkalanche, thanks.

Collect the whole series:

[MechAg94]

Sasquatch and aliens.  You left out Sasquatch and aliens.

Brad

Well, there are aliens and then the ANCIENT Aliens! Which apparently need even less proof to believe in. 

[230RN]

But without cable, how will you have fine programming available like the show "Mountain man plus 27 kids drives ice road truck to airport to fly bush plane to dredge for gold under the ice and then catch crabs and then go home and drill for oil in the backyard to make money to prep for doomsday but then change your mind and sell some of your stuff to a pawn shop and put other stuff in storage and then go on a naked cooking competition and come back and decide to live in the Yukon and get your crappy snowmobile stuck every other episode"?

Outstanding.  Too true to be funny, though.

Notwithstanding, Terry laugheth: 

[HankB]

Collect the whole series:

You forgot Sharkuake and Sharkteroid.

[Scout26]

If the above aren't enough cause to cancel, then only electro-shock therapy is the answer.


<<<<--------going on 4 years without TV.  And I wonder why I wasted so much of my precious time staring at the idiot box.   

[TommyGunn]

Sasquatch and aliens.  You left out Sasquatch and aliens.

Brad

Not any more:

[Perd Hapley]

I just got cable, for the first time, ever. No TV, just internet. It is half the price of my VOIP/DSL, and more than twice as fast. I used to have pretty reliable connectivity from AT&T, but it's been going downhill for a while.

[230RN]

Hook an antenna to your DTV set.  See what you get just off the air.

Suits me fine, doesn't burn up as much time as the hundreds of versions of ""Mountain man plus 27 kids drives ice road truck to airport to fly bush plane to dredge for gold under the ice and then catch crabs and then go home and drill for oil in the backyard to make money to prep for doomsday but then change your mind and sell some of your stuff to a pawn shop and put other stuff in storage and then go on a naked cooking competition and come back and decide to live in the Yukon and get your crappy snowmobile stuck every other episode*" shows.

Go to http://www.tv.com/listings/ select  your area, and for the provider, select "Off the air."

Cheap.  No hassle.  No contracts.  No nuthin'.

Oh, and cheap.

$0.00 per month and you can lock in that "Introductory Rate" for a considerable number of years.

Terry

* With an appreciative nod to Ben.

[Perd Hapley]

Huh. I guess at night time it's 3 times as fast.

[Boomhauer]

Hook an antenna to your DTV set.  See what you get just off the air.

Suits me fine, doesn't burn up as much time as the hundreds of versions of ""Mountain man plus 27 kids drives ice road truck to airport to fly bush plane to dredge for gold under the ice and then catch crabs and then go home and drill for oil in the backyard to make money to prep for doomsday but then change your mind and sell some of your stuff to a pawn shop and put other stuff in storage and then go on a naked cooking competition and come back and decide to live in the Yukon and get your crappy snowmobile stuck every other episode*" shows.

Go to http://www.tv.com/listings/ select  your area, and for the provider, select "Off the air."

Cheap.  No hassle.  No contracts.  No nuthin'.

Oh, and cheap.

$0.00 per month and you can lock in that "Introductory Rate" for a considerable number of years.

Terry

* With an appreciative nod to Ben.

Dad actually brought a decent external antenna and put it up, gets several channels.

My interest in TV has just waned over the years. I have a few shows I catch on Netflix but that's it. Hell my school apartment comes with cable as part of the package but I don't watch it.