We still don’t have an NBC channel on our cable lineup. And now Time Warner has increased our monthly rate by another $2.00 per month. Add to that the $4.60 rate increase they hit us with a few months ago and we are paying 82% more than we were when we first signed up (And frankly I thought $10.42 was pushing it to begin with). Oh and we are now one channel short.
On the upside I found that video that they were playing online. So you can watch it too! They aren’t playing it on the TV anymore, they switched to random channels as far as I can tell a few days ago. Some are premium channels (like Stars!) though so it isn’t all bad.
For now we are looking at picking up one of those DTV converters. The top rated one by Consumer Reports, the Tivax SBT9, isn’t very expensive. In fact I found it online for about $50 with free shipping. The US government is giving out coupons for $40 off. They’ll actually give you two. So I think we’ll spend $20 and pick up two boxes. If one of them dies we’ll have a spare.
Reports are people near us get quite a few channels on the digital signal. So if it works we’ll probably just drop the cable all together. We’ll save a few bucks and probably a bit of frustration dealing with Time Warner.
Tags: DTV, KXAN, NBC, Time Warner