well, back in august i knew things weren't going to be smooth with the cox buyout of cableamerica (my local provider). i already cancelled my internet service because, well frankly, cox internet sucks (at least in my area). qwest dsl has proved to be a better choice so far (crossing my fingers for verizon fios).
well 5 days ago i got a note in the mail about having to turn in my dvr/cable box. it was not something i was looking forward to, but i planned for it -- they let me know that on oct 18 the box would be rendered useless.
i unplugged it and took it down -- little did i know it was a sales process...'do you have internet?' -- yada yada -- give me my new box. i got it and went home. the user interface sucks. it's like the cableamerica ui on the motorola was a slick wicked xbox/wpf/mediacenter looking thing...cox ui? atari. the process of creating a series recording sucks arse.
anyhow, i used it. until today. october 18. channels abruptly changed. on the cox box, fine. on my tivo units, not so fine. no problem, rerun the setup...it found cox as a new provider...but then started asking me about the channel lineup -- and it didn't match. now i have a dvr service (in 2 rooms) that is useless if the channel lineup doesn't match.
contact cox: not our problem (their probably right); contact tivo: 3-5 days for an answer.
argh.