I need to revise that...it is HA-POG, not HAW-POG.

I grew up in Hauppauge, NY. It is pronounced HAW-POG.

Glad to see the 700 has a non-touch screen. I mostly like my Harmony One - all except the touch screen, where I'm constantly touching/brushing against the wrong virtual button. It is such an annoyance that I went back to my Harmony 880, and put the One in a desk drawer for now. I would have been really stoked if the 700 had a cradle, but I guess 'plugging' it in will work.

Now if I could only live by OTA alone, I'd be all set by winning the DTVPal DVR., Hmm...maybe I could go back to OTA-only...would save me $1008 a year.

Someone should sue Netflix for not providing all their content via Watch Instantly. I know it's the content providers, rather than Netflix who are holding back the content, but perhaps if someone sued Netflix, a ruling would eventually come down that there is no difference between a physical DVD and streaming. We should be able to view via which ever media format we choose.

And to add to this as a former Verizon employee, Verizon is made up of the former 13 state northeastern Bell Atlantic (NYNEX and C&P Telephone) and the "western" GTE/Contel. The states/areas that are being sold off are part of the GTE/Contel acquisition, and were always treated as stepchildren to the northeastern region. The writing has been on the wall for many years for a sell-off of the non-northeastern states. Not to mention that Verizon last year completed the sale of their customers to Fairpoint in NH, ME and VT...all three being more rural, and having a much smaller customer base than NY, PA, MA, DC, MD, etc. I don't see the sale of these western states as a way to avoid rolling out fiber in particular, but rather as a way of streamlining operations. The western states have never really fit it well with Verizon 'corporate'. CA and TX are exceptions, as they are way more profitable/have more concentrated hives of customers.

Turbo HD customers currently don't have Fox News HD, Fox Business News HD, MTV HD, VH1 HD, BET HD, Nick HD, Speed HD and FX HD. This is ridiculous!!! Dish Network should be ashamed. Turbo HD packages are supposed to offer the HD version of a channel if it has an SD equivalent in an AT/Classic package. Dish, you supposedly are going to fix your issues that are causing your subs to churn...here's an oppty to do the right thing, and keep some subs...stop playing games and add these friggin channels to the Turbo HD packages like you should have doe to start with!

I just got off the phone with TWC Austin after having requested that they provide me my past 12 months of data usage. I spoke to a very nice woman in Billing who then contacted Technical Support to get this info for me, but she ultimately told me that they (TWC) don't have that info for my account (or anyone elses) at this time. The net-net is that they have no idea what I use a month, and we're just supposed to trust them with this?

I am SO against limits/caps/usage monitoring that I'll just go back to smoke signals, rather than pay them any money if they implement this. Since they'll probably implement it regardless of how I (and others) feel about it, there had better be a way for an independent accounting of usage. With cell phones you either made a call for a certain number of minutes or you didn't - with internet, its going to be a train-wreck tabulating your usage.

By the way, the rep said TWC Austin has been getting many calls about this - so keep calling, and continue to draw as much media attention to this as you can.

If the cable/telcos implement this tiered/usage cap model, I, and everyone I've been talking to recently will move as many services off the internet provider that we can. I will move my TV service to DirecTV or Dish Network, and move our Time Warner Digital Phone service to AT&T, just on principal alone. They should be prepared to lose revenue from their other services. I sure hope they've factored in this loss and bad publicity they're in store for.

Perhaps TWC thinks they have us over a barrel since many of us have few other choices for an internet provider, but TWC should rest assured that we will not go quietly. They should prepare for a media-relations nightmare. We will not stop until our local news is covering this situation weekly, and until President Obama and the FCC finally have to step in and put a stop to this.

I probably sound like a radical, but, I've spoken to nearly everyone I know about this in the past two weeks, and we're all fighting mad.

Just a note that "Guiding Light" on CBS has been on TV for 57 years - since 1952, and started on radio on NBC back in 1937 - for a total of 72 years. The next oldest soap is "As the World Turns" which first aired in 1956, making it 53 years old.