just like our package. Um, is Encore part of this package? I'm going to go and see! That would be nice.
$10 for "basic" analog cable - gets us NBC, etc plus a couple of real "cable" channels like TBS
$10 for digital cable - gets us Discovery Home, BBC, Bravo, Do-It-Yourself, etc but does NOT include the extra analog cable channels like regular Discovery Channel, Sci-fi, USA, Comedy Central, HGTV, TLC, etc (although every channel you get will have the digital on-screen guide and such, only certain channels are actually digitally encoded)
$15 for the DVR (well worth the extra bucks!!! Who wouldn't pay $5 a month to be able to avoid watching commericlas?)
$45 for cable internet - regularly $60, but we get a $15 credit for having digital cable (so in a way, the DVR pays for itself, he-he).
Total - $80 for both cable and internet
Ask your carrier if you can get digital cable without the "expanded basic" package (the rest of the analog cable channels, like Discovery, Sci-fi, HGTV, TLC, ect) - here that package would add another $35!!!
It took me about a month to get used to not having TLC and HGTV, but now I figured out that the digital channels also play most of my favorites, like Trading Spaces, so I'm not in withdrawal anymore. I just set up the DVR to always have a handul of episodes recorded - works great!
And if you're going from no cable to digital, you wouldn't really miss the extra analog cable channels anyway! With the on screen guide and DVR, you can type in a TV show you like, and it will tell you when it plays and on what channels - you're going to love it!
You can do a Google search to find a way to hack the remote to add a 30 second skip forward button (otherwise you have to fast foward the slow way). Here is the link for Comcast
http://dcortesi.com/2005/05/04/motor...0-second-skip/
One other thing, about once a week, I peruse the movie channel listings (Encore, etc) and set the DVR to record any movies I'm interested in seeing - saves on rental fees![/quote]