I am so technically challenged that I scare myself sometimes thinking I’ll never fit in the new world that is all about high tech. Even most of the appliances scare the heck out of me and as far as I’m concerned most are not user friendly. I guess I got left behind long ago, I don’t even know the difference between HD and SD (high definition and standard definition for those of you that are also challenged.)
Of course I know basically the pixel count is higher so the picture should be sharper and better, but it still looks the same to me when I see them in the store. I see a sharper image on our television sets since switching to Direct TV from Comcast and our sets are standard. I thought the set in the living room was HD capable and Bill knows about as much as I do about this stuff, so when I asked him when I was ordering the package he said yes, guess what?….it’s not!
So now we are going to buy a flat screen HDTV and we saw some fairly cheap 32 inch ones that were on sale. Seems such a waste of this perfectly good TV set. Of course had we known we could have gotten a much cheaper rate on the bundle, of course I realize stupidity can cost ya. We have standard hookups on the other TV’s and they all look great to me and as little as we watch television it seems like a big waste, oh well, live and learn, I hope.
I read so many horror stories about the installers and all the problems that the customers faced that I was very apprehensive. Installers not showing up and cutting all their coaxial cables and rewiring everything so I was quite disappointed that our installer showed up a few minutes after 8, the time window was between 8 and 12. He used the cable wires we already had installed, of course he had to wire and ground the satellite dish.
He probably had more problems than we did because the house is pretty old with bad wiring. When he first got here he was disgusted with us for not knowing our television wasn’t HD or even capable, so we said no big deal will get one that is , just do the fricking wiring for HD and then he got all nice and said we could call him when we got it and he would walk us through plugging it up, he did plug the wire up and told us we just needed to plug it in the new TV.
Next he couldn’t put the satellite on the front roof because of asbestos and couldn’t put it on the back cause that was a rubber roof, he finally found a spot that he approved of then he couldn’t find where Comcast had hooked up their cable. He must have had a bad night cause his girlfriend called and complained he didn’t wake her up after their night out partying. He was huffing and puffing and talking to himself, cut the wrong cable, but fixed it quickly, he complained about everything, but did a good job.
Bill bought him breakfast from Hardee’s and he seemed really pushed for time because he had a 5 room and a 3 room to do after ours, but like I said he did a really good job, but I really didn’t need all his grumbling and bad energy. It took a little over 3 hours and he explained the remotes and was very pleasant at the end and told us if we had any problems at all to call him instead of Direct TV because he would lose a 60 dollar service call if they sent someone else. Bill gave him a 20 dollar tip.
Yesterday we took our 102 dollar Comcast bill with equipment back and cancelled our service, Bill had his checkbook out ready to pay our bill and the girl checked the computer for the final bill and told us we didn’t owe a thing, not even the 102 dollars so maybe Comcast isn’t so bad after all.
