Sweet! Just got a good deal from TiVo. As I mentioned earlier, one of my TiVo units broke so I was going to replace it with a newer DT unit. So I looked on TiVo’s website and found the one I wanted – $99. Not bad.
But off to the side of the order page was the part where you order the service plan with it, and the cheapest plan is $12.95 a month. Um … I’m payin $6.95 a month now for the recently broken unit. I don’t really like the thought of doubling that. When I bought the second box I was getting a cheaper rate because I had a second box.
So I called up TiVo to find out how to transfer the current plan from the broken box to the new one. Shawn in Customer Support wasn’t very helpful. Nice enough, but he said $12.95 was the cheapest plan and that I would just have to cancel the plan on the broken box and activate the box with the $12.95 plan when it arrived.
Hmm … that was enough to make me reconsider the purchase. I only use the second unit a couple of days a week. It’s not a need. But I decided to take him up on his offer to transfer me to the “Retention Center” to help me cancel the account. I really didn’t need their help with that part, but the word “retention” sounded promising.
Glad I did. I told the woman who answered – sorry, missed her name – the same story about my broken TiVo, having 2 boxes and wanting to get new box under the same plan. To my surprise she said no problem and even gave me the $99 TiVo for $69.
I got to keep my cheap plan and get $30 off the new box. All I had to do was confirm my shipping information and give her my credit card number. The box will arrive at my doorstep, at which time I’ll call back with my case number and they are supposed to switch the plan from the broken TiVo to the new one.
Thanks TiVo!
Adam TV, Technology, TiVo
I came home from traveling a few days to find that the TiVo unit in the bedroom has suddenly given up the ghost on me. It was paused on a show that I know I wasn’t watching when I left the house and was stuck. I unplugged the unit, plugged it back in and it came up with the familiar “Powering Up” message.
And that’s as far as it will go.
A while back it was making some ticking sounds like the hard drive was going out in it so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, but the ticking stopped probably a year ago. Well, whatever decided to take the life of my beloved TiVo has come back. Why it chose to take the newer of the two boxes I own is a mystery to me, but either way now I’m down to one TiVo … and (sadly) that doesn’t seem to be enough for me. I miss having the TiVo in the bedroom full of The Daily Show episodes that I can watch for a few minutes before going to sleep.
So I’ve decided I should buy a new one. (I lasted a whole 4 days before giving up the idea of a single box.) Why not, the new DT ones work with my cable box that has been collecting dust – and yet costing me $5 a month – for a couple of years now.
Adam TV, Technology, TiVo
Cool. Just noticed “ItsJustSomeRandomGuy” put out another Batman vs. Ironman sketch.
Please to enjoy.
Adam Videos
I can’t get enough of these Marvel/DC YouTube videos. “ItsJustSomeRandomGuy” does a brilliant job of creating short, Robot Chicken style videos using Marvel and DC superhero action figures. It started out as “I’m a Marvel and I’m a DC” – a takeoff on the Mac/PC ads – and then spawned from there.
I love the ones where all the heroes are sitting around a night club chatting. My favorite is below, but I just checking out all of them. There’s over 40 now.
Adam Videos
Twitter’s down again?!!!
How long before the community moves to a new platform?
I’m ready to go when you guys are.
Adam Technology
Gotta love Colbert. Gotta hate baseball. Should be grateful anyone cares about your boring-ass sport.
Adam Sports
So Jason Taylor calls a press conference to say … pretty much nothing. He just wants to make sure that everyone knows he isn’t asking for a trade.
Right.
“I’m playing ball in ‘08. If [a trade] doesn’t work out then I’m a Miami Dolphin. . . . I love this place.”
Sure, we get it. You want to play for a winner and and that’s in Miami, well, awesome. If not, whatever.
Ask any guy, we’ve all done this before. You’re dating a girl who’s … OK. She’s nice and cute and there’s nothing wrong with her, but you aren’t really in love with her. You really don’t even care that much about her. BUT … well, you do at least like having a girlfriend around … for obvious reasons. So you don’t just want to break up with her.
Instead you start keeping an eye out for “something better.” At the same time you turn off the charm with the current girlfriend. Rather than stay home with her on the weekend you do a Vegas run with the guys. [See Taylor and "Dancing with the Stars."] You basically just do whatever you want and then if she dumps you, whatever. If she lets you get away with it, well, that’s OK too.
It’s not the most admirable move in the book, but it’s a time-honored tradition among us guys. And it’s the same thing Taylor is doing. He wants to play on a winning team next year and he wasn’t really interested in putting in the work with the Dolphins. It’s not that he hates them, he just doesn’t care that much for them anymore. He’d rather be traded, but doesn’t want to be the obvious jerk and break up with them. So instead he just does whatever he wants and sits back waiting to be traded because he figures Parcells won’t put up with it.
Adam Football, Sports
