Archive for February 21st, 2008
Bye, bye, Foxtel…
February 21, 2008Life is full of big decisions. Who should be the President of the United States? That’s one.
Life is also full of little decisions and we just made one of those. We cut loose from cable TV.
World changing? No, but we’ve improved our personal lives greatly by dumping Foxtel cable’s most basic plan that was costing us more than $55 a month and signing up for a steady supply of movies and American TV show reruns at a cost of only $20 a month.
Foxtel was frustrating in the extreme. Nearly every time we chose something from the schedule of programs in the Foxtel menu, we got a message saying, in effect, “Sorry, cheapskate. You have to pay more for this or be content with watching a re-run of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ for the third time.”
Quickflix is, as Aussies say, brilliant.
That means very, very good, which fits our experience of this company so far. I have no financial interest in Quickflix; I just like to give praise where praise is due.
We chose and ranked in order of preference 20 movies or TV show collections we’d like to see. Quickflix folk mailed us DVDs of our top two choices with Read the rest of this entry »