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In article <qp3u1etoiamo4uto246v4kumc8v8puiknm@4ax.com>,
<nobody@nada.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:06:30 -0500, "Dr. Personality"
> <affable@no.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >I'd had DirecTV since before the turn of the century.  I canceled it
> >today.  It has gotten too expensive -- more than $200/mo, even before
> >another rate increase next month.  We now have an Xfinity bundle that
> >includes very fast internet and costs less than half of what I'd been
> >paying just for DirecTV.
> >
> >I never thought I'd go back to cable, but here I am.  The DirecTV DVR
> >is better, but not so much better than I want to pay an extra $100+ a
> >month for it and not get fast internet.
> >
> >I also got rid of our landlines today.  They'd become nothing but
> >conduits for junk callers, and I was very, very tired of paying for
> >being harassed by crooks.
> >
> >Goodbye, then.  I've been in this newsgroup for many years and, even
> >though there's very little posting going on these days, I used to find
> >the people here to be very helpful.  My deepest thanks, wherever you
> >are.
> 
> If you call DirecTV and ask for the Loyalty Dept, and tell them you
> want to cancel service, they will offere you some really substantial
> discounts. My DirecTV with HBO and Showtime is never over $100
> including Whole Home and all other fees.


Thanks for that.  They did offer me discounts, but the best rate they
came up with was $139/mo.  (That was about $80/mo less than I'd been
paying.)  It didn't really matter what they offered me, though.  I
wanted fast internet, and the only way to get that here is through the
local cable company.  (I live in the boonies.)  I'm saving about
$120/mo over what I'd be paying if I hadn't packaged.  Before now all I
could get was DSL, which on a good day was running 3.8 Mb/sec.  Now I'm
running up to 400 Mb/sec.  It used to take me about three and a half
hours to download an iPhone iOS update, and I'd let it d/l overnight. 
I brought in 10.1.2 the other evening in about three minutes.

I'd become disenchanted with DirecTV in any case.  We used to get a new
channel or two almost every month, and something would often go HD
about as often.  That doesn't happen anymore.  Worse, the service on
local channels was sporadic.  Chatter and dropouts unrelated to weather
had become commonplace.

The channel lineup is a little bit sparser on local cable but, so far,
I'm not missing anything.  The only thing missing that my wife liked is
the Cooking Channel.  That's not worth a hundred bucks or more a month
IMHO.

One mildly surprising thing is how good some of the commercials for
local merchants have gotten, at least technically.  Twenty years ago,
they'd just put up a still frame with a name and address and so on. 
The ads have become rather elaborate.

Thanks again.

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Farewell "Dr. Personality" <affable@no.com.invalid> - 2018-12-20 17:06 -0500
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    Re: Farewell "Dr. Personality" <affable@no.com.invalid> - 2018-12-24 00:31 -0500
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