Paige Wakefield's Observations

Ever since I moved to this area my sister has been trying to convince me to switch from cable television to direct tv satellite television. She kept telling me that she loved her
directtv and that it cost a lot less money than cable television did. But I had done my research when I had moved in here and found that satellite television only allowed a few television sets to be hooked up for the monthly rate, but that the cable television allowed unlimited hook-ups for the monthly rate. So I kept telling her that since I had so many televisions it was more economical to do the cable television bundle.

Well, that was all before the cable television service had to digitize all of their stations and charge the customers for the receiver boxes. Suddenly keeping cable television was more expensive than switching to the satellite bundles offered at dx3. At first we thought that only a couple of the channels were converting and we lost those channels for a couple of months. I really didn’t care since I didn’t watch much television anyway. But then one day in the middle of a television program the screen was scrambled and it was scrambled on all of the stations, on all of the televisions. A phone call to the cable television office revealed that we were going to have to pay a lot of extra money than before just to keep the same service we had. I asked for a discount and they refused. Now it was making financial sense to switch to a satellite television service. So I switched. I can’t afford to have all of the televisions hooked up like I did before, but my monthly bill is not any larger. When I finally did switch I told my sister that I finally gave in to her nagging and I had better not hear a single complaint from her about reception problems!