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Sara and I just switched to FiOS as well, have you had your installation yet?
Yep. A while ago. Very happy with it so far. The DVR/guide responsiveness is so much better than Comcast’s box, the internet is super fast (though their router/modem annoys me), and the HD channels are uncompressed and look much better. My father in law actually looked at the HD and decided he was going to switch cause he said the picture looked so much better than on his TV. Which is funny, because I’ve been telling him for years that his TV is miscalibrated. So he may be disappointed.
What do you mean miscalibrated? I actually had to buy a new living room tv a few weeks ago when mine gave out completely. I got a 46" 1080P 120hz. And it looks phenomenal especially with actual hi def stuff (Blu Ray, etc.). But I want to make sure it’s running optimally.
A lot of early HD TVs had real problems with either “green push” or “red push.” Essentially, either the greens or reds would get totally blown out to the point of banding. His TV has some hardcore green push that needs to be adjusted for.
Your TV is probably fine.
The thing that’s odd is that certain things on my new tv look live. Like so vivid that they almost look like they were filmed live with digital video. It’s pretty crazy, and takes some getting used to.
Good thing they picked up another near monopoly to counteract this loss. Please stop trashing my new (hopefully benevolent) corporate overlords.
We are getting more bang for our buck with Fios. We now have 3 boxes, 1 is HD with DVR, more movie channels, and high speed internet for less than we paid with Comcast.
It is ridiculous that Comcast was able to monopolize sports that way.
just checked – nope, still no Fios available in our area. balls.
mandy said:just checked – nope, still no Fios available in our area. balls.
They came door to door about a year ago and I turned them away because I was afraid of the unknown. Now I feel chumpy, because I could have been paying less for better service.
In related news, my grandfather (age 80?) is officially switching to Fios after having been a Comcast cable subscriber for over 20 years… which is to say they’ve had cable tv at that house since as far back as I am capable of remembering. We had a switch box with a really long wire because remotes weren’t invented yet.
Anyway, the guy’s had cable in his house [living room only] forever. While alive, my grandmother insisted on having the top of the line package, including HBO and all that. When she died, my grandfather pared back the package bit by bit over the course of a few years as without her pension and stuff it became an expense he couldn’t justify trying to swing on a fixed income.
Well, as times change the Internet passes people by. He’s no longer able to see most websites on his 56k modem. His computers and browsers are so hopelessly out of date that websites literally give him error messages saying he won’t be able to use them. And flash pages? I don’t know that the man has ever seen one.
Then broadcast television, which was free all these years to anyone with a set and rabbit ears, got put out to pasture, shot, and sent to the glue factory. Digital converter boxes are more an insult than a bad joke perpetrated on any poor bastard trying not to pay for tv.
The guy has one digital box in his house, the very basic digital package (with no frills), and is paying the same amount that I am for HBO and high-speed Internet.
I understand that the simple solution is to have him get a package deal and eliminate his phone service… but there’s a greater question there. Isn’t that kind of strong-arming? Isn’t that a slight degree of trust-building? Doesn’t it seem kind of fucked up to make people buy shit they don’t need just so they’re not getting screwed on the deal?
Or is the answer to just wait until his generation dies off, assuming that everyone after him wants all that shit?
CSN was already available on Fios – the article only refers to direcTV and Dish Network.
It will still stand as a good bartering point for people trying to get a better deal from Comcast though.
this just means more games will be on cn8 which isn’t on vios, you can never win.
on a related note i’m days away to canceling comcast and going ota with all other programming via stream.