The other day, I came home to find my cable boxes in my living room and in my bedroom going crazy. There was no TV signal on either box and the displays were flashing a series of letters and numbers. I didn't bother calling Comcast because I saw the word "boot" flash up and I realized that they were doing some remote work on the boxes. Well, when I was finally able to turn my livingroom TV on, I found that they had installed a new menu system (I've been getting mailings warning about this for sometime now.) Whereas before, my cable menus were pretty generic but very useful, these new TV Guide menus are clunky, don't display as much channel info at a time, and contain ads. Feh, indeed!
Plus, there's some glitch where if I schedule a show to be recorded, the TV will turn itself on when it begins to record. I woke up at 2:30 AM to the sound of the TV blasting (I had set it up to record a rerun of the Drama Desk Awards showing on Ovation.) Grrrrrrr...