Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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In this case, "the man" is Comcast. I am now on Standard Cable. No longer can I stand their horrible DVR box which can barely record lo-def TV. For the past 2 months my box has been recording shows and every 1-2 minutes inserting audio and video drop-outs and pops. I have replaced the box once, which was very painful to set up all my recordings again, and have had a service guy come out and replace almost all the wiring in my apartment saying my problems were signal related. Something is really broken with Comcast as they wanted to send me a guy again with another replacement box... do they hope if they do this enough times the problems will magically fix themselves? This is a software, and it sucks big time...
...the Motorola box with the TV Guide software sucks worse than any product on the planet. I'd rather have lo-def TV then crappy, choppy time-shifted HDTV. And I sure as hell am not going to pay $95 for an unfinished product... I will happily wait till the end of the year when I can get a Vista Media Center with CableCard support. In the mean time I may try and see if I can get OTA HTDV in my MCE box.
I've also managed to ween myself to only 1 hour of TV a day, which made this decision much easier. That extra savings (my new bill is $50) will go to a Cingular Wireless Broadband connection for my laptop.
Hmmm, this is a really lame way of sticking it to the man. I should just get rid of them completley. Where is my IPTV?