So when I last left you all I was waiting for my new digital to analog converter to come in the mail so that I could continue to use my TiVo with my antenna set-up. Well it came, and upon hooking it up to my TiVo, I have no picture or sound, however when I bypass the TiVo, the converter works wonderfully. After spending the better part of 2 days chatting online with TiVo customer service, whom I cannot say enough good things about, they came to the conclusion that my TiVo is broken. Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
I feel a little background information may be necessary. Before I got married, the two events that most changed my life were: 1. My first iPod and 2. My TiVo (yes, I am a giant nerd, but I'm ok with that). It has now been 1.5 weeks without my TiVo and I can honestly say I have watched maybe 3 hours of live TV and it is simply unbearable. How do people sit through commercials like this? How dreadful! Also, with my schedule, I currently work 2nd shift and am not home for prime time shows - not a big deal during the summer but when new seasons start in a few months, I will absolutely need me some TiVo.
So now I am at a crossroads. Cutting the cord to save some money has so far cost a little bit of money, which was easy enough to write off when it only came to the equivalent of 2 months of cable bills, but adding the cost of a new TiVo, ($498 TiVo premiere w/lifetime service) that brings us up to 7 months worth of cable bills. I know this will be a wash after the first 7 months and after that I should be able to cash in on the initial investment, but it is becoming more and more difficult to convince Erin (who admittedly wasn't a fan of this idea from the beginning) that this is a good idea.
My argument has become that we will need a new TiVo with or without cable. Her argument is we can just get the one that comes with cable, but that doesn't really work for me. Decisions, decisions. My fellow nerds at wired said it best:
'Get TiVo. Just do it. Don't whine about how the DVRs from the cable company are free. Don't argue that they have bigger hard drives. If you like TV, you'll step up to TiVo. Think of it this way: A lot of the phones offered by wireless carriers are free, but you still bought an iPhone (or at least an Android), right? Why? The difference between that junky Nokia and an addiction-inducing iPhone 4 is the same as the difference between a stock Comcast box and a new TiVo: the interface. There are exactly three companies in this world that are truly great at interface design — Apple, Google, and TiVo.'
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