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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #25 on: March 29, 2010, 11:48:28 AM »
Yes, but Time Warner only lets you get CBS, NBC, ABC, etc, correct?  I have been led to believe you can get almost all the HD channels w/o a box from SureWest  :dunno:
My fault, I misread your original post. I think you're right, pretty sure you need an HD box to get HD channels.
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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #26 on: March 29, 2010, 04:43:11 PM »
I have TWC here in Lenexa w/ HD DVR and pay about $63 a month. I hate the DVR it sucks compared to DiercTV's. I'm not going to mess with a sat or uverse until I buy a house. I don't have any of the movie tiers, but I luv Netflix on my bluray.

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #27 on: March 29, 2010, 04:50:59 PM »
Arch, does that $63 include RoadRunner?

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #28 on: March 31, 2010, 11:11:55 AM »
Disclaimer: SureWest is not available in my neighborhood, but this part of the good I have heard about it.

One cool thing about SureWest is they do not encrypt the HD versions of ESPN, ESPN2, the U and others.  This is useful any HDTV that you do not want a box for (kitchen, bar area, garage, on the deck or patio, etc).  Comcast and Time Warner do not do this. 

Here is a link showing what you can get without a box if your HDTV has QAM tuner built into it.
http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/lineup_web/US:66061#lineup_1920914

This is also nice if you want to use your computer as a DVR.


unencrypted QAM channels are required by the FCC.

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #29 on: March 31, 2010, 11:17:01 AM »
UVERSE. Total Home DVR alone makes this choice an easy one. (Allows you to watch a recorded show on any TV in the house.)

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #30 on: March 31, 2010, 11:59:42 AM »
UVERSE. Total Home DVR alone makes this choice an easy one. (Allows you to watch a recorded show on any TV in the house.)

yeah, 4 shows at once 2 HD etc.  awesome.

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #31 on: March 31, 2010, 12:40:50 PM »
UVERSE. Total Home DVR alone makes this choice an easy one. (Allows you to watch a recorded show on any TV in the house.)

yeah, 4 shows at once 2 HD etc.  awesome.

So you can now record 2 HD shows at the same time?  I looked int UVerse a while ago, and their DVR didn't have that capability, so I didn't switch
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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #32 on: March 31, 2010, 12:51:02 PM »
yup. 

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #33 on: August 05, 2010, 03:36:11 PM »
So just made the jump to UVerse after Everest raised its rates and added mostly crappy hd channels.  People still in love with UVerse?
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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #34 on: August 05, 2010, 06:32:50 PM »
So just made the jump to UVerse after Everest raised its rates and added mostly crappy hd channels.  People still in love with UVerse?

uverse is fine as far as i can tell. did you get a lot of money from them to switch?

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #35 on: August 05, 2010, 06:35:37 PM »
I have no issues with uverse.

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #36 on: August 06, 2010, 08:21:21 AM »
So just made the jump to UVerse after Everest raised its rates and added mostly crappy hd channels.  People still in love with UVerse?

uverse is fine as far as i can tell. did you get a lot of money from them to switch?

yeah, $25 off/month for 12 months.  2 Free boxes for 12 months, 6 months HBO for free.
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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #37 on: August 06, 2010, 08:33:21 AM »
i'm still on TWKC, love it


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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #38 on: August 06, 2010, 09:12:07 AM »
i'm still on TWKC, love it

Had them for a while, but I had DVR and HD issues so bad I swore them off foeva
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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #39 on: August 06, 2010, 09:26:05 AM »
i hear you, my gf had a ton of issues with her cable box/dvr too, including me swapping both of them out for her last week.  they have gone to a new box though made by cisco, will report back on any issues. 

i'm too cheap to use a box at my place, i just do the basic 74 channels + roadrunner and pick up OTA HD so i don't have problems.

i think they tried to bring the box firmware development in house instead of relying on their previous vendor and that's what caused all the problems.  <---read that online somewhere


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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #40 on: August 06, 2010, 11:43:20 AM »
i hear you, my gf had a ton of issues with her cable box/dvr too, including me swapping both of them out for her last week.  they have gone to a new box though made by cisco, will report back on any issues. 

i'm too cheap to use a box at my place, i just do the basic 74 channels + roadrunner and pick up OTA HD so i don't have problems.

i think they tried to bring the box firmware development in house instead of relying on their previous vendor and that's what caused all the problems.  <---read that online somewhere

How do you not have a DVR? Its 2010 dood. Is that extra $10 a month to much for you?

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #41 on: August 06, 2010, 12:46:02 PM »
i hear you, my gf had a ton of issues with her cable box/dvr too, including me swapping both of them out for her last week.  they have gone to a new box though made by cisco, will report back on any issues. 

i'm too cheap to use a box at my place, i just do the basic 74 channels + roadrunner and pick up OTA HD so i don't have problems.

i think they tried to bring the box firmware development in house instead of relying on their previous vendor and that's what caused all the problems.  <---read that online somewhere

How do you not have a DVR? Its 2010 dood. Is that extra $10 a month to much for you?
i have DVR software on my iMac that I can dvr stuff if i need to.  i don't use the TWC DVR which actually costs $17/mo.


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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #42 on: August 06, 2010, 12:48:52 PM »
i hear you, my gf had a ton of issues with her cable box/dvr too, including me swapping both of them out for her last week.  they have gone to a new box though made by cisco, will report back on any issues. 

i'm too cheap to use a box at my place, i just do the basic 74 channels + roadrunner and pick up OTA HD so i don't have problems.

i think they tried to bring the box firmware development in house instead of relying on their previous vendor and that's what caused all the problems.  <---read that online somewhere

How do you not have a DVR? Its 2010 dood. Is that extra $10 a month to much for you?
i have DVR software on my iMac that I can dvr stuff if i need to.  i don't use the TWC DVR which actually costs $17/mo.

Was going to do this with Everest because they had almost all their HD channels Clear QAM.  Got a letter last week saying that was going away.  Blew.  Hence another reason I jumped.
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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #43 on: August 06, 2010, 12:50:41 PM »
JFC, my HD DVR Box from Cox is $5 a month.  I think they raised the rates for theirs recently but I got grandfathered in or something. 

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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #44 on: August 06, 2010, 12:55:00 PM »
that is racist, i thought that the FCC required Clear QAM


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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #45 on: August 06, 2010, 01:00:28 PM »
that is racist, i thought that the FCC required Clear QAM

Only for local channels that you could obtain over the air.  Everest was cool because all their ESPNs, FSNs, TBS, TNT, etc, were all clear until now.
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Re: Cable in KC: Time Warner or SureWest (Everest)?
« Reply #46 on: August 06, 2010, 01:02:42 PM »
complete racism.  everest should rename themselves to Racist


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