This morning I heard a Comcast shill babbling about "If you got a year's contract on satellite TV last year, it's expired and you can change to Comcast." Oh, please...why? We have a better picture on satellite and more channels for the same money.

Some folks have said, "Well, doesn't your signal go out when it rains?" Yep, since the storms around here generally come in from the same direction the dish is pointing, we will get a dropout for a few minutes. Once or twice in the three years we've had satellite it has been a little longer. Our cable would go out every time we had a hard rain--what's the difference? Plus our cable reception, by the time we got satellite, was abominable on some channels. All my fourth season Remember WENN episodes have snow. Comcast (at that point they were MediaOne) said it was our fault, something about the cable coming into the house. A cable they installed, incidentally. The switch box was in front of our house and once James bumped it with the lawn mower. Had he bumped me that lightly, he wouldn't have even have raised a bruise, but the cable was off for three days, and we had to argue to get it back that soon.

If nothing else I would avoid Comcast simply for being subjected to both radio and now television commercials of that obnoxious political-rally type "fast forward world" advert they're using now. And I thought the DeBeers and Jared commercials were disgusting...

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