I’m going to go ahead and tell you that the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point (Piedmont Triad, for you nickname-preferring brahs out there) has the shittiest cable service in all of America North Carolina. Actually, I take that back. The younger Brinson says that Greenville, NC (Herpland, again for you nickname friendly peeps) has way worse cable, and I don’t get it. We have Time Warner in the Piedmont Triad and it is freaking horrible.
I can name a slew of reasons, primarily because whenever I’m in “Guide” mode and enter a channel number, it changes to that channel. Why the hell would it do that? Why wouldn’t it let me go see what is happening on that channel in the guide section. I don’t want to use scroll up/scroll down.
I could also mention the lethargy with which the remote operates, or possibly the fact that … well, I could name hundreds of things. The beef I have today is with DVR in general. Because last night, I got a little piled up and ready to watch the Simpsons and Family Guy. Neither were accurately saved. Instead of Homer I got Rusty Wallace and Dale Earnhardt involved in some sort of press conference. And instead of Stewie making jokes about broccoli, I got Bryan Pollock Bobby Hill.
Now, look, I get that Simpsons stopped being funny a few years ago (although it did partially “come back” the past season and a half which have been pretty funny) and Family Guy’s just horrible at this point. But I watch the Wire on DVR, which means I have a lot less pile material on Sunday once basketball ends at 10 pm or whatever. So I would prefer to be able to see these things. But I could not, because, somehow my DVR box isn’t smart enough to adjust when a show is starting based on an obviously running-late NASCAR race. In order to actually get the two shows I wanted to watch, I need to record two hours worth of material. Which is total bullshit. Can we do anything about this? Not likely. Time Warner is fairly monopolistic about their particular areas, and if it’s not them, it’s Comcast. But you know what, TW? Maybe you can’t make the DVR smarter, but the least you can do is upgrade your service, grow the eff up and at least give me the quality of box I used to pull in Raleigh? Er, uh, right.
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Still laughing at the Pollack joke. nice!
I am in Richmond and had COmcast which is 10X better than TW IMO..but they both suck..My advice..pray that Verizon FIOS comes to your town like it did here last year. Shit is on point…but I love my directv. I can enter the channel and it doesnt go there..just in the guide..it is niiiiiiiice. Brinson, I feel your pain brah.
Dood, that shit is awful. Killed my piles when I was in Winston. I also hate how when you fast forward for a second time it automatically goes into 4 arrow fast forward, which basically goes 5 minutes past the commercial break before you can hit stop. Baffling how that shit doesn’t happen with Raleigh TW rougly 75 miles east.
Oh it happens all the time in Raleigh, Time Warner is just overall terrible, customer no service and if you have to change your service from one place to another you have to wait a week to get it hooked up? So you have to go out and get blackout all week until you get service in your house, unreal, Time Warner can suck a Fat One, mine to be exact, balls must be fully in mouth as well.
Sincerely, Mr Nutz
Oh and kind of ironic that they have an ad on your website. Fix that.
I feel your pain and yes, they all suck. Direct TV sucks just a little less but not everyone can get a satellite and if it was not for the NFL ticket, I probably would tell them to shove it.
Good Customer Service from a Corporation? haha, that is a good one.
Highly entertaining Bill. Cox blows balls here in Arkansas. Let me rant on some Brah topics you deem fitting. Already got some stuff cooked up down here.
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