Well, the technician came out last night and set me up with a new box, and checked all the fittings and replaced all the connections, and so far, so good.  The real test will come in the evenings when I come home from work and settle into my usual routine of Stewart and Colbert, if I can make it through those shows without a problem I'll be more than satisfied!

And speaking of NOVA...whenever I watch it on channel 49 (non-HD) on my downstairs TV, I can hear two soundtracks to the same program!  The primary narration is done by a man and is louder, but underneath, I can hear a woman's voice as if she is giving cues to the narrator!  I watched this program about Otzi (the Iceman) the other night, and I knew what the narrator was going to say next because I could hear this woman's voice quietly dictating the next scene.  Weird...

drpepper said:

It would be interesting to see/hear it though, maybe you can start a viral video of "Paranormal Cable"

 

Yeah, really!   It is kinda cool in a way...it becomes a game to see how the narrator will change what the underlying voice says first.

 

On another note...

The tech came out last Friday, and he gave me a new cable box, then he put new connectors on all the cables.  I'm happy to say that so far, I have had no problems or freeze-ups at all.  It's weird though...I can't stop thinking that the next time I turn around to look at it, it will be frozen!  Happily, that's not the case.

So for the first time since I've had it, I feel like I am getting the cable that I've always thought I should.  I am very pleased