Recently a group of my neighbors and I where out walking out dogs in the morning and on a rare occasion we all landed up at the same corner in the neighborhood. School started so I guess every one's schedule has switched to school mode. Normally walking my dogs is boring and entail lots of commands telling them to slow down. Well anyway we started talking about what each of us had for TV service. We live on a peninsula in the Northeast and can't get any reception with a antenna. Ive been seeing lots of dish's showing up on roofs so I brought that up. 3 of the dog walkers had The Dish Network and said they wouldn't have it any other way. They started talking about the deals they get, like the folk accross the street from me Free DISH Network System Promo. Free Install. Packages starting at $19.99/mo. They seemed very happy and enthusiastic to say the least. Satellite HDTV is awesome.

It was my turn to boast a little. We just switched to Verizon Fios. Ive been using Verizon High Speed Internet for about 3 years and love it. I am able to multitask my blogs and e-commerce sites with no problem. FiOS is Lightning-Fast Broadband Internet Access. They all wondered why I was home all the time and I had to explain about being a webmaster. Which can go on for hours sometimes.
Being so happy with Verizon's Internet, FiOS TV For Just $39.95 a month is the natural next step for me. We are still waiting for installation for the TVs, but my parents have installed Fios and think its much better than cable. My Mom said it popped out of the TV. These are folks in there 70's that just bought there first new TV in 20 years! It is great. 

My family and extended family all have major issues with cable. Its a ripe off. For basic cable which is only channels 2 - 21 is like $45.00 and for expanded basic the cost is over $65.00 and that just adds a additional channels 21 - 65. More than half of these channels are useless for most of us, but we need to have the expanded basic in order to get the Weather Channel. We have to have the Weather Channel here on the coast and cable knows it. Almost everyone you talked to is switching to something besides cable TV. Its the perfect time to upgrade TVs and your service before the DTV switch over February 17, 2009.