Gone are the days of just setting up the rabbit ears to watch TV. These days, there are hardware considerations. Personally, I believe this to be especially true with PVRs and the like.

This Sunday they are coming to hook up DirecTV (again) — one TV, one room, one receiver in our family room. This is the result of that class action lawsuit awhile back where they have to provide the Total Choice plan (not sure which one) for six months for free to anybody elligible that filled out the form. My wife was all over the form and now this Sunday we will be satellite-bound again.

That leaves Comcast cable on the chopping block. Also puts Netflix in the crosshairs as we re-evaluated usage there. All my non-usage fears with that service have been realized and they have nothing to do with throttling, it is our own laziness in watching, er, not watching movies. It was great for the first month or two and then after that we just stopped returning the DVDs regularly. [Read the rest]