I just switched off of it. I managed to talk my way out of the one year contract by pointing out that it sucks balls. She agreed with me and canned my TV contract if I agreed to stick with their internet for 5 more months. Deal.
The reasons I didn't like it are:
- the stupid black squares that would appear way too often. It's not satellite. WTF?
- you need a box for every TV. I didn't think I'd care since I rarely watch TV, let alone in my bedroom. But every so often I get into a good sciency/geek show late at night and want to keep watching until I fall asleep. Can't do it unless I bring the stupid box to my room, or else pay for another one monthly, that I'll use maybe once a month
- the channels are all different. That's just a pain in the ass. Friends come over and instead of them just knowing to jump from 21 to 22 to 27 to 30, I gotta tell them 111, 115, etc. A minor annoyance, but hey, as long as I'm bitching...
- Contract. Why? Because you know that your service sucks and that I'll want to switch back in a month? Haha! You got me!!
- there was one channel that I couldn't get from Telus. 99.9% of people would never care about this channel, but I wanted it and couldn't have it.
Of course, there were a few good things about it...
- the remote is way better than the awkward one that comes from Shaw. Maybe it's just me, but I think the Shaw remote sucks. The buttons are not easy to click unless you look at the thing. And that said, the other good thing about the Telus remote is that it lights up. Bonus.
- The extra channels from the eastern time zones are part of the deal. For roughly the same price as I pay for Shaw, I got the same stuff from Telus except that Telus also included the Toronto Global, CTV, etc and a few other cities.
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