Grrr, Comcast, grrrr

My analog TV has been disconnected from cable for nearly a month, but I finally called to cancel analog cable it, and what should happen but my Internet disappeared.

I had to spend an hour, most of it on hold, talking to two different tech support people, and hearing the same ad for some apparently epoch-making pay-per-view WWE wrestling event a zillion times. Now I'm back on the Internet.

But grrrrr....

My sense is that a lot of people are cancelling cable. For me, the reason is that in order to get the few channels in the upper tiers that I would actually watch, I have to pay for 200 channels of continually deteriorating, brain-rotting idiocy. Anything that's any good eventually shows up on DVDs or streaming anyway.

My Roku actually comes close to a la carte cable. I pay for Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Acorn TV. There are dozens of cheezy religious channels available, but I don't have to add them or the shopping channels or the sports channels or Fox News or anything else I don't want.