Time Warner HD DVR – Show not available

What I would love to be doing right now is watching CSI in high definition on my HD DVR form Time Warner.  However since the Scientific Atlanta 8300HD decided to “goof” CSI is not available for playback at this time.  This is the second strike for my Time Warner DVR, as last week Time Warner had a issue in the local area that caused problems for all cable boxes.  For DVRs in the area this meant that the DVR showed your “season pass” selection but didn’t tell the DVR to record your shows.

Unfortunately until the Tivo Series 3 drops to 200 bucks, ie 2010, I will be stuck with Time Warner for an HD DVR.

Thankfully we still have a series 2 Tivo set to record many of our favorites. The Tivo catches most of our SD content, and the loads of CSI re-runs on Spike.

Barney’s Get Psyched Mix

Back in December, the new year’s eve How I Met Your Mother Featured Barney’s Get Psyched Mix.  We just recently saw the episode and found the track listing on TV Squad.  Well I decided to put together a playlist on Rhapsody of the Get Psyched Mix.

Tracks

1) I Wanna Rock — Twisted Sister
2) You Give Love A Bad Name — BJ (Bon Jovi)
3) Lick It Up — KISS
4) Paradise City — GNR (Guns & Roses)
5) Dancing With Myself — Billy Idol
6) Rock You Like A Hurricane — Scorpy (Scorpions)
7) Panama – Van Halen
Talk Dirty To Me — Poison
9) Thunderstruck — AC/DC
10) Dr. Feelgood — Crue (Motley Crue)
11) Round and Round – Ratt

Barney’s Get Psyched Mix – TV Squad 

P.S. Watch this show.

Rules of Engagement – Hot New TV Show

I highly reccomend you set your DVR of choice to CBS at 9:30 on Mondays.  Rules of Engagement is a hti new comedy featuring David Spade, some new guy(Oliver Hudsun), and the voice of Cronk from “The Emporer’s New Groove” (Patrick Warburton), along with thier respective any girls, fiance, wife.  The show is a hit and if you are married or engaged this comedy should hit home and be hilarious!

Rules of Engagement – 2007′s hottest comedy!

Get A Better Cable TV Rate

This past month our cable/phone/internet bill through Time Warner increases 40%! The jump was up to $140 per month since our promotion had ended. Now I enjoy all these offerings but this was way to much to pay. I ended up taking the advice of the Personal Finance Advice Blog to lower my cable rate. I called up Time Warner last Friday and choose the option to remove a feature then the option for cancelling my service. I greeted the CSR who was helping me and explained the large increase had made me consider a direct tv offer which i mentioned in passing. I asked if she could get back to what I was paying before my rate increase rather than asking for a direct match. She immediately offered me my same service for $95 per month. I countered ans asked what kind of deal I could get with HDTV service included and she was able to offer it to me for $105 which I gladly accepted, though I eventually added the DVR functionality since that is the only way I watch TV nowadays for a total of $111 monthly. The killer part of this deal is that my rate is locked in for 18 months, thats a year and a half! That is even better news since the Personal Finance Blog is reporting that some cable companies are putting in a 2 month buffer between your promotion ending and the next one beginning.

Some Tips to Remember:

• Be Nice to the CSR
• Don’t make demands, ASK for a better deal
• Know what you want before you call
• Find out the length of your new rate, set this date as a reminder to call again in your calendar program.
• Have a competitor’s price and plan handy mention it but don’t focus on it.

Remember, only YOU can prevent high cable rates.

HD TV is Sweet

Today I was able to finally hook up HDTV from Time Warner!  I spent the rest of the day watching various HD programs including some college football.  It is amazing the difference which exists when you go to the SD channel and then switch back to the HD version.  Thats all for now more later on the amazing deal I got from TW and how to get one of your own.

Wierd Al + LOST = LOST Rhapsody

This fan made flash video featuring a Weird Al rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody is scarily linked to the events on Lost. Which means that the Bohemian Rhapsody was scarily linked to Lost which means lost will end like the song does…

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,

Any way the wind blows….

Check out the Weird Al Lost Rhapsody

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