<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Tom Bongiorno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tbjr@bongohut.com" target="_blank">tbjr@bongohut.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_extra">
My efforts were well worth it to me. Otherwise I wouldn't be using MythTV, and my cable bill would be about $80 a month more than it is now.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, the cable companies are betting on that -- no need to organize and train to resolve "outlier" issues like this; worst case people just give up and pay for their own DVR solution, more $$.<br>
<br></div><div>Hopefully they realize there are a *lot* of people like me, who went the other way -- when they started the digital transition, with uncertainty about whether and when QAM would work, moving channels around, no clear cablecard solution (at the time), etc, we put an antenna in the attic and dropped cable altogether. Perfect HD reception for our local channels, and the non-network programs we want to see are mostly available either for free online (HGTV et al), or via iTunes or similar, costing far less than our yearly cable bill anyway. Not true for everyone, for sure.<br>
<br></div><div>If at some point the cable companies standardize this all better and make it easily accessible, we might go back, but until then...<br><br></div></div><br></div></div>