Cancelled directv

Pulled the satellite and serial cables so DTV couldn't send anyone down the line. Then called up and Precious walked me through the process with little fanfare. She did try to do the Retention Schtick: $50/mo instead of my current $72-something.

Nope. I did note, while I was online, that my service hasn't changed but the cost went up 12.5% (from $64 to $72) in the last 12mons alone. Nice.

To keep the DTivo from recording blankness and confusing the Now Playing screen, I cleared all the Wishlist and Season Pass entries. Turned off Suggestions and it clobbered all recorded Suggestions. Note to onlookers: if you want to keep your Suggestions, don't turn them off until you are done with them. No big loss, but interesting.

DirecTV to hike prices

Here's a thread about it.

I'm ready to go live with the free Over-The-Air antenna feed saved onto the mythbox. Will discuss it with the Dear Wife tomorrow.

If we do cancel, I'll disconnect the dish cables and network connection first so they can't do anything sneaky to our DirecTivo. There's about 100 hrs of recorded material there we'd like to eventually watch.