The nEEd for spEEd

Three... two.... one.. blast off. I have just upgraded to comcast's blast. Tech guys should be by on Tuesday. I am kinda scared cause I really don't like corporate giants like comcast, and nor do I really like giving them more of my money. Fios is not available in my town yet and I have this need for more dl speed. Its not anything about illegally downloading music, as some would think, its just the fact that it is inherent of my human nature to be impatient of a web page to take 10 secs to download. Dont get me wrong 10 secs is fast but "I want it now" as violet in Willy WOnka states. Believe me there is a plan for myself to abandon the clutches or at least loosen the clutches that comcast has on me. For instance, we, in my house, are note tv junkies. we are more of video game and internet junkies than anything. So I have the great Idea to use my my new found speed to watch things on the interwebs. Makes sense right? NO?

Well lets put it this way. We waste our money in our house on endless reruns of shows, and crappy cable tv. There is nothing ever on HBO, Showtime, Cinemax etc. So I got that removed. Most of the channels we watch ie: Discovery, Animal planet, Sci fi, you know educational stuff for the most part, show plenty of things, but they really don't have the depth of tv that requires me to be paying so much monthly. So instead I figure that we stream everything once the time is right.

Well let me just say that Comcast is so backward that when I went to disconnect my tv, and up the bandwidth that me not having cable and just internet was going to cost me 67.95(of course this was the blast service) I was like waaat? so the lady takes me through a spiel of questions regarding tv services that I watch and it ends up that cable tv with my upgraded internet is exactly 67.95...? again waaat!? now of course there is no more premium cable channels and I get to have my discovery and such(basically a beefed up analog service), but I dont need that stuff. I guess you are thinking well that was self defeating, and i say not really, cause I was paying about 160 for service. So I cut it in half cause when it was all said and done I ended up paying about 80 bucks(keeping the converters and stuff like that, you know taxes) . We'll keep it for another few months, but there are so many other avenues to be entertained. There is joost.. there is tvlinks, youtube, and every station is providing archived episodes, and we can get news broadcast too.

So why in the world am I paying for something that I do not need. I am actually waiting for verizon fios to come to our area, and then I will drop tv. cause it will be cheaper to go with them and get 20 megs instead of the 16 that I have or will have soon.

The plan is still going to be move away from tv completely but I figured that I could record things to my mythdora box (Mythtv is the wave of the future and mythdora is one of the surf boards to ride it. )I know some are like mythtv? mythdora? No worries I will blog about that soon.