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[eppur_se_muova]

13. We've dropped WOW! for terrible service and ever-increasing prices. Haven't found an alternative yet.

All the streaming services want auto-pay -- meaning you give them your card no. and they promise to charge you only what you signed up for -- as if I believe they'll get that right every time.

I never want to have to deal with an overcharge from a company that expects to take what they want and maybe they'll get it right.

You're right about legacy customers -- my mother can't really handle even an OTA converter. It takes two remotes, and she can't keep straight how to use them differently. So I kept putting off cancelling cable, but WOW! will only provide cable service if you also have Internet service. We get faster Internet from AT&T fiber and were paying for an internet service we didn't use anymore just to get cable ! I never could find a streaming service I actually liked, so put off dropping cable, but it was just wasted money, so we finally dropped it.

I strongly suspect I'm never going to like streaming just because the remote interface is so awful -- tiny little graphics that I can barely see at all clearly and, in the examples I've seen so far, no useful organization whatever except to push the channels they want to sell you for the highest price. And then that hunt-hunt-hunt-pack-repeat with the cursor! MUCH easier to push two numbers and get the channel I want on cable.