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communication/economics

Hasta la Vista, Baby

Posted on Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 by Will Cox

We’re cancelling DirecTV service. It’s been about a year since purchasing the HDTV and the associated DirecTV package. Meanwhile, our viewing of ...

communication/rant

DirecTiVo, your return can not be too soon

Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by Will Cox

Our DirecTiVo was dying. Every now and again, frequently at times, it stopped, hung. Maybe it waiting on a bad block on disk. Maybe it was just the heat. But th...

communication/family

Navel Gazing

Posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 by Will Cox

For one of her classes last year, D. wrote a paper which analyzes an effect of the self-absorption of the media, in response to one of the unfounded assertions ...

communication/rant

Can I Get a Real Person Here?

Posted on Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 by Will Cox

What does it take to get a real person on the phone these days? I don’t want to talk to the computer. I’m not talking to the computer. I did not buy...

communication

Cablevision Offers TiVo

Posted on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 by Will Cox

CED Magazine reports that Cablevision has signed a deal to market TiVo equipment to DISH and DirecTV customers. Someone’s been reading my journal. “...

communication

Not the TiVo!

Posted on Friday, January 7th, 2005 by Will Cox

DirecTV is effectively removing the impediment to my changing video providers. “We’ll support our existing TiVo customers,” a spokesman for Di...

communication/economics

No Video on Demand

Posted on Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 by Will Cox

Because HBO has nothing we want to watch while we wait for The Sopranos, because we’re not that desperate, and because DirecTV makes changing packages sim...

communication/economics

While I’m on the Subject

Posted on Thursday, August 19th, 2004 by Will Cox

Dear DirecTV, I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that you’ve lost a customer. My loyalties are to my TiVo. I can get plain TV anywhere. Just...

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