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Comment We cut the cord on Cable TV (Score 1) 697

My wife and I did not see the reason to pay about $60 for the six channels out of the 150 that we were watching. So we just cut back to high speed internet only with cox in SE VA. I have a decent over the air antenna in the attic that picks up 30 or so digital stations. We have a stand alone tivo and HD Home Run network tv tuner. Between the tivo and window media center we are covered with the local tv stuff. Netflix covers movies as well as occasional renting fron VUDU. We have a pc with HDMI hooked up to the home theater system and we get what we would of gotten on cable from the network web sites or hulu. I miss shows like Storm Chasers and stuff like that on Discovery. But overall we have no regrets and we save money. I did have to fight with Cox in the beginning of our relationship because they were cutting bandwidth to netflix and youtube despite the fact that we had a 20 mb downstream package. That took a month to fight with them about but then someone flipped a switch and we have had no problems after that. We're happy living with out pay television.

Comment Disappointing (Score 1) 412

I had expected so much more from this movie. I loved the original Tron. I had been looking forward to this movie for months. The depth of the story was pretty shallow. And the only plot I could get was that the creators son was coming to save the grid. Almost biblical. Oh and the other plot, cute girl in tight outfit. I understand what her character was supposed to represent and do but that was not used or utilized to it's fullest potential. I see no sequel coming out of this. Tron is pretty much dead at this point. It's a shame because they could of done so much more.

Submission + - Cox throttles bandwith to online video

mike2400 writes: I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I called cox to cancel my cable tv service only. I was keeping my internet. Almost immediately any online video or audio such as you tube or Pandora was having a hard time buffering and maintaining a quality stream. My speed tests however said I was getting the bandwith I was paying for. I called cox after a few days of this and asked them to do something about it. They said it was on my end but did something on their end to make everything right. I am curious if other folks in the slashdot community have had this issue with cox.

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