In addition to losing MGM-HD, the relative number of HD movie channels on Comcast/Xfinity is shockingly low. Browsing through them, sometimes it feels like I’ve taken a trip back ten or fifteen years.
Our internet and phone service with them are exceptional. I wouldn’t even dream of shopping around in that regard. But there are times when I feel like their television offerings were better in the past.
I think you're the first person I've ever heard say that. Usually, as soon as Comcast is mentioned people immediately say how horrible it is.
You are totally right, they do indeed, and I try to be selective and clear about the things I'm praising. I've had Comcast since my earliest days in CT and I've been through every technological change with them. For many years it was indeed horrible. Even through the first "digital" years (I'm thinking early 00's) the quality could be great one day, terrible the next, and it would take forever to get something fixed satisfactorily. Somehow, though, the local branch has gotten its act together, and I must knock wood while simultaneously typing this, but they knock themselves out to keep things working properly.
The current crop of modems is good and we're on a higher level of internet speed than whatever the basic is, and it really performs. (Still knocking wood.) We've been on their phone service for something close to a year now, and it's beautiful. It's even more solid than the original landline we swore we'd never give up, but which over the past few years had become as unreliable as anything else.
So, I have reason to praise, but not 100%, and I absolutely know it's the luck of the draw. I could move to a different town serviced by the same company and find myself in total hell. It's also ridiculously expensive.
