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Thursday, March 13, 2003

Decision

I have made my decision: I’m switching to digital cable. It really won’t be that much effort – just selling my satellite system on eBay. The Cox guy should do the installation this Saturday, and I picked up a Tivo Series 1 with an 80GB hard drive on eBay. Should get that next week. The hard drive in my Dish PVR501 is dying, so I’m getting a replacement receiver. That should also arrive next week. So what I’ll have to sell will be a brand new smart card and like new receiver, along with the used dish. Should get a decent amount for it, and it will at least cover the cost of the Tivo. As soon as I’m all set up with my cable, I’ll be cancelling my Dish Network service. I can’t wait to have a good recorder instead of that glorified VCR that I have now. I want my season pass.

I watched part of one of the free previews of the MLB streaming video baseball games today. I was very impressed. The stream quality was very good. Again, I’ll have to check out the schedule to make sure I’m going to get enough Mets games out of it, and figure out how much use I’d actually get out of it at work. I think I might be better off just getting the audio streams, as those are easier to deal with and much less intrusive at work. We’ll see. Plus, I’ll have the MLB Extra Innings package being recorded on my Tivo at home. I’ll compare the two schedules and then decide what to do. If you’re at all interested, I recommend checking out one of the preview games at mlb.tv.