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Death to Dish Network and Netflix
After four different days and 6 total hours on the phone (refer to earlier post) I am officially cutting Dish Network out of my life. It's been a good relationship for 3.5 years but the breakup has been brutal. You broke me down and you broke my bank. I don't want to just be friends...I prefer just loathing you! This is now how we roll when we watch TV. I turn the couch 90 degrees and we watch full episodes of stuff on our Mac.
And here's my other beef. We had a 4 month relationship with Netflix and has officially crashed and burned. It doesn't hurt as bad because we don't have the history that we had with Dish. For the second time they sent us a DVD that has a huge crack in it. It wouldn't even read that a DVD was in the player...good times.
I'm actually excited about this new season of life. We hate TV anyway. We only watch a couple shows anyways and you can watch most of them on the computer. It's hard when you have kids because you put them down at 8pm and there's no leavin' the house together. And you can only play so much Scrabble and Parcheezee (we don't own either of those...just making a point).
So here's the new plan...prepare yourself...
No more regular TV watching...occasional couch turning TV watching on my 20" Mac screen that won't really show full screen so you're looking at about a 16" screen. No more Net Flix. We are going to Hollywood Video...they have a deal for $15 a month were you can rent 3 movies at a time...bring em back within 5 days and rent 3 more (unlimited rentals a month). I'll tell you how it goes.
This long standing relationship with my TV is something I've been trying to walk away from for a long time. Thanks Dish Network for taking $350 from me and forcing my hand. I already feel better without you.
BTW...As I was in the crescendo of my breakup with Dish I informed them that I was going to tell everyone that I thought would listen that I think they're the worst company on the face of the planet. So there it is world...Death to Dish Network!!!
In retrospect I think it's exactly what Jesus would do :)
I'm a jerk
Now I'm off to pray
7 comments:
dude, it's crazy that you posted about this today! all throughout yesterday i debated about asking my folks what they thought if we limited our tv watching to an hour or two a night...rather than the usual 4 or 5 hours a night (in which sometimes i join them and sometimes not).
matthew sleeth mentioned something about how he got to the point where he realized his "things" owned him...that got me to thinking how much i am owned by inanimate objects. something is wrong when the first thing i do when i wake up or the last thing i do before sleep is something relating to my Mac...
wow.
Dude, what are you going to do about sports though. Kind of a dillema
We just ditched our DirectTV, but we are keeping Netflix. We have done this 2 other times in the past and I love how much more together our family is when we do.
you crack me up! this was the first one of your blogs that i've read, but it was fantastic! makes me seriously consider ditching my tv.... hmmm...
I hear you can get vhs tapes pretty cheap.
antennaweb
Weird. Netflix didn't replace your damaged DVD? I've had this happen to me twice in the past year where I got a disc that had problems. In both cases, I called them. They replaced the dvd and sent me my next one as an extra disc. I'm surprised they didn't do that for you. They were extremely nice about it, said that it doesn't happen often, but when it does they want to make sure they take care of me.
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