Hey, it’s also an RCA! Model XL-100

I didn’t have the heart to tell him that the TV that he was looking at was purchased in November of 1990. Still, works, perfect, too. Good job RCA.
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My folks still have their console set; a shot from last year
http://rama0929.smugmug.com/photos/103289734-M-1.jpg

Hey, if it works, why throw it out? The money saved could be put to better use

LOL – thanks for the kind words about the blog!

Hey, if not for my kids not being able to use the noggin.com site, I may still be on dial-up!

FWIW, the tech that did the install nearly fell down when he saw I was using dial-up. And, later, when he hooked up my TV, and saw my VCR, he nearly fainted again.

I didn’t have the heart to tell him that the TV that he was looking at was purchased in November of 1990. Still, works, perfect, too. Good job RCA.

>Well, considering I was the last person in the US using
>dail-up when I made the switch, yes, LOL, it’s a lot faster.

Oh, you’re definitely not the last. One of the reasons that yours is the first Yankees site I check — besides your interesting and literate writing, of course — is that it loads quickly over dial-up.

~~~Tell me about the INTERNET! Have you done speedtests?~~~

Well, considering I was the last person in the US using dail-up when I made the switch, yes, LOL, it’s a lot faster.

Basura: The commercial focuses on losing Cablevision News12.

I just find it amusing. I get my news, weather & traffic from 1010-WINS

The TV service is a secondary consideration for me personally. Tell me about the INTERNET! Have you done speedtests?

Unlike cable, Verizon doesn’t throttle your traffic depending on what you are doing. I used to download hundreds of gigs at a time non stop over the course of weeks using DSL. I salivate at the prospect of FIOS. Mmmm. Fiber.

Steve: Now that you have such a wonderfully fast connection, you should consider getting a Slingbox. With that, you can stream live TV to your office computer to watch Yankee games. If you have a smartphone, you can watch TV on it as well with the Slingbox. Never miss a Yankee game again! I plan to get one in time for the start of the new season.

Cablevision’s 12 is very good for weather and traffic (the news is OK but it’s almost on a continuous loop) but maybe in their ads they’re trying to make a prospective customer think they won’t get channels 2,4,5,7,9, and 11 like happened with Satellite long ago.

I’m out on LI so the weather I get from channel 7 for example is not of much use to me.

I didn’t mind leaving Cablevision a bit and the only “prominent” channels I lost were MSNBC, some Spanish ones, and Cablevision’s local news.
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Funny to see Cablevision’s ads noting that if you go to “telephone tv” you lose the local news channel

I plan on waiting a while after FiOS comes to the hood before switching over (that is if I’m still at my current address)

I worded that awkwardly.

If you lose power you have approximately 6 hours of phone service available. The internet and fiber would last that long but you need to have battery backups to keep your TV’s and computers running.

Cordless phones would work as long as they kept their charge and the FIOS backup was still “up”.

I still have one “regular” Verizon phone line not using FIOS so it would be available during a power outage since the phones get their power through the older phone lines.