Living With the Cable Company

Recently, our cable television company switched from analog to digital cable; and ever since they made this change, it has been one thing going wrong after another. First of all, they raised our rates. Then we were presented with this huge, black cable box to put on top of our television set. Also, I learned that I had to have a box for every television set in the house. The real inconvenience came when I was informed that I could no longer watch one television show while recording a program from another channel. That makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? We must hook up a second television set accompanied by a second gigantic cable box just to record something other than the channel I was watching.
The clear picture that I had been used to seeing every day now had days when it was fuzzy and days when 70% of the channels went out completely. Many times the reception broke up into tiny squares like jigsaw puzzle pieces trying to make a complete picture.
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