I used to have MCI, but they charged me $90 for a 30 minute Calling Card call from the Caribbean because I was not on the correct plan. They declined a chance to adjust this so I switched to another carrier.
MCI now calls about bi-weekly with an incredibly tricky double-negative question that is designed to get a slam OK'ed. So far I've kept from being slammed, but if someone else answers here they may succeed.
Maybe AT&T has to do it just to stay even.
I also tried to put a "freeze" on any future slam, but I gave up after Verizon's run-around. They claimed that they couldn't reach the third-party verifier that is required to OK the freeze.
I own a TiVo (love it) and I read the review. ReplayTV and TiVo cost the same if you pay TiVo's $199 lifetime service. With TiVo you have the option of paying $10/mo or $100/yr for service.
From the photos it looks like the ReplayTV does not have a fan, and hence the heat problem. My TiVo has a fan that runs at a silent "waft" speed, and the software tells me it is 97F inside the box in a 74F room. The device is in a stack of AV equipment.
As I see it, TiVo has three great features:
It pauses live TV
It time-shifts shows
It gets to know you and chooses shows for you
ReplayTV currently only has the first two features. I have not direcly compared but all reports say TiVo's software is easier to use too.
shall have the right to... dispose of it in any manner he sees fit
without any obligation whatsoever to the sender
that got me thinking. We need a gallery of dead *Cats! Email me photos or scans of your horrifically killed *Cat and I'll assemble the gallery.
By the way, I emailed the CEO of barpoint.com suggesting that they build some code into their site to unscramble *Cat's output. With no installed software, a user could use the free device easily with that service. No response yet.
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MCI now calls about bi-weekly with an incredibly tricky double-negative question that is designed to get a slam OK'ed. So far I've kept from being slammed, but if someone else answers here they may succeed.
Maybe AT&T has to do it just to stay even.
I also tried to put a "freeze" on any future slam, but I gave up after Verizon's run-around. They claimed that they couldn't reach the third-party verifier that is required to OK the freeze.
From the photos it looks like the ReplayTV does not have a fan, and hence the heat problem. My TiVo has a fan that runs at a silent "waft" speed, and the software tells me it is 97F inside the box in a 74F room. The device is in a stack of AV equipment.
As I see it, TiVo has three great features:
- It pauses live TV
- It time-shifts shows
- It gets to know you and chooses shows for you
ReplayTV currently only has the first two features. I have not direcly compared but all reports say TiVo's software is easier to use too.that got me thinking. We need a gallery of dead *Cats! Email me photos or scans of your horrifically killed *Cat and I'll assemble the gallery.
By the way, I emailed the CEO of barpoint.com suggesting that they build some code into their site to unscramble *Cat's output. With no installed software, a user could use the free device easily with that service. No response yet.