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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
I have FIOS TV, computer and telephone service. My cost is $125.00 per month. Unlimited long distance calling, internet service (the speed is nice), TV is the basic package. We do not watch movies much and if we want to there is video on demand. Most movies are $3.99 and a lot are free. It does us no good to pay for HBO or Cinemax. We do not watch these channels but we can order a movie from them if we want. Overall, by switching to all their services I saved about $50.00/month over my old way with separate services for TV, internet and phone. Plus, just one bill a month that is always the same amount give or take a few dollars so budgeting is a bit easier.
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I did the $79 for unlimited calling to US and Canada + I got the 15/2 package. I went Direct TV since Comcast is encrypting all their digital content, making it incompatible with Media Center 2005, and I can't have that. So I went with Direct TV. I got an unlisted package for $19 a month, and I get 300 or so channels (100 of them are XM Sat radio only though) which includes Encore Stars and Showtime. I think the Showtime is a trial however and expires in a few months.
Anyway, I worked it for less than $100 a month for all 3 services.
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PS. Direct TV will work fine for all media recorders in the future by the way. Microsoft is making sure of that -
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060105-5913.html - I wouldn't use any other service now because of that. Any Media Center or Media recording device, such as a Tivo, works fine with DTV.
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
The phone on my FIOS has no effect on my FIOS internet or vise versa. They all play nice together.
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It has an effect on ping times for sure.