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DVRs and Verizon: or, how Verizon leaves me feeling violated

Blue Rider

Jun 1, 12 13:37

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All,

I have apparently been enjoying some sort of special credit from Verizon that has kept the DVR charge within the range of normal. Now they want to end that credit and charge me $20/mo. for the damned device, plus end some other credit I was receiving for a time. At the moment, they are not budging, which means my FIOS bill is about to shoot up $50/mo. This is all absurd.

I am wondering if it would be worth it to give them their DVR back and just buy my own. Has anyone done this? What did you buy? Does it work with FIOS, if you know? It seems like it might be more cost effective than paying Verizon 20 bucks each month for an outdated and fully-amortized piece of equipment.

What annoys me is Verizon so far has thrown around all sorts of credits to keep things at a certain price point, and now suddenly suggest that such things are unreasonable. And I'm their dream customer: I use not a lot of each of the services, especially at peak times, am stable, and pay my bills on time.
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De que depende?

scorpio516

Jun 1, 12 15:12

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Re: DVRs and Verizon: or, how Verizon leaves me feeling violated [Blue Rider] [In reply to]	Quote \| Reply

http://cetoncorp.com/...cts/infinitv-4-pcie/
or
http://cetoncorp.com/...ucts/infinitv-4-usb/

http://hd.engadget.com/...lecard-tuner-review/

Sure, you'll need some sort of HTPC, but you can do away with most of the verizon hardware, and you'll have lots of space to record programs. And there are other bonuses to having a HTPC.
Now, that's $200 for a quad tuner (so less than a 10 month payback period), So you can watch or record 4 channels at once - which is probably more than the FIOS hardware, I know the Motorola hardware that Comcast used to use only had 2 tuners in it.

There are other cablecard tuners out there, and I've used none of them (OTA for me), but this was the first reviewed one I googled. And the review used Tampa's Verizon FIOS.

(This post was edited by scorpio516 on Jun 1, 12 15:13)

littlefoot

Jun 1, 12 19:21

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Re: DVRs and Verizon: or, how Verizon leaves me feeling violated [Blue Rider] [In reply to]	Quote \| Reply

Can u just switch to comcast?
Or tell them you are talking ti comcast and plan to terminate ur contract in a month...they will call u back in a week