Updating the TV (again)
Just before Halloween, I had to get a new TV. Then, a few weeks ago, my cable box died. I've been using a spare one dad had in the basement, which has been fine. He'd wanted to trade out the bad one, though. There had been a cable company office in the general area, but when dad went a couple of weeks ago, that office had just closed permanently a few days earlier. Great. He ended up calling and arranging for them to send a new one; the old one will go back in that box.
The new one came yesterday. However, when dad tried to set it up with my TV, the system was down so nothing was happening. Great. I mean, I had this older box that worked just fine; now, all I get is static. Can you tell I don't really care about this? Dad was all, but you have an HDTV! You'll get HD channels now! Well, right now, I'm not getting *any* channels. At least I wasn't looking to watch TV at that time. Frankly, I'd had a long day at work and was hungry, and I preferred he make dinner. He did acquiesce, at least.
He waited about an hour and went back to work on the TV; this time, success. He sat with me as we started going through all the channels. Holy cow, there are a lot of them. Some are flat-out duplicates; others are the HD versions of the regular channels I've gotten all along. All I know is that I grabbed the channel guide from online, and compared it to what I get on my TV now, and it's a lot of channels. I spent the day making a list of everything. It takes up four pages, and that's putting three columns to a page. Now, I don't get everything listed, but if it showed up on the online guide, I wanted a record of it. Strangely, not every channel I actually get showed up on there, and this is despite the listing being tailored to my address.
Here's the not fun part: So, now that I have an HD box, we had to reconfigure something with my TV. That's all fine and dandy, except when my TV alarm turned on this morning, the timer hadn't been reset as to what it should tune to when it goes on. I woke up to very loud static. Holy cow, I'm up, I'm up! Thankfully I remembered what dad had done, so I was able to get my TV to the correct setting, but that is NOT how I want to wake up on a Saturday.
The new one came yesterday. However, when dad tried to set it up with my TV, the system was down so nothing was happening. Great. I mean, I had this older box that worked just fine; now, all I get is static. Can you tell I don't really care about this? Dad was all, but you have an HDTV! You'll get HD channels now! Well, right now, I'm not getting *any* channels. At least I wasn't looking to watch TV at that time. Frankly, I'd had a long day at work and was hungry, and I preferred he make dinner. He did acquiesce, at least.
He waited about an hour and went back to work on the TV; this time, success. He sat with me as we started going through all the channels. Holy cow, there are a lot of them. Some are flat-out duplicates; others are the HD versions of the regular channels I've gotten all along. All I know is that I grabbed the channel guide from online, and compared it to what I get on my TV now, and it's a lot of channels. I spent the day making a list of everything. It takes up four pages, and that's putting three columns to a page. Now, I don't get everything listed, but if it showed up on the online guide, I wanted a record of it. Strangely, not every channel I actually get showed up on there, and this is despite the listing being tailored to my address.
Here's the not fun part: So, now that I have an HD box, we had to reconfigure something with my TV. That's all fine and dandy, except when my TV alarm turned on this morning, the timer hadn't been reset as to what it should tune to when it goes on. I woke up to very loud static. Holy cow, I'm up, I'm up! Thankfully I remembered what dad had done, so I was able to get my TV to the correct setting, but that is NOT how I want to wake up on a Saturday.