After spending 90 minutes on the line with technical service, absolutely nothing was accomplished. The said thing this is not the first time this has happened. The latest debacle involves the sudden disappearance of caller ID notifications on my TV set and the inability to access my DVR from the internet. Both of these services stopped working about 2 weeks ago. I spent the 90 minutes this morning on the line with the rep and accomplished nothing but wasting my 90 minutes.
This is on top of a previous issue that still has not been resolved with Fios regarding the mysterious purple screen of death because the the new high capacity DVR set top boxes have handshake/firmware issues with Sony XBR HDTVs. I have had technicians in my home and technicians on line for HOURS and still nobody has a clue as to why I can't use HDMI cables with my set. Worked perfectly well with my old set top box. Works perfectly well with my Blu-ray player. Its Verizon's issue with the crappy boxes and firmware they are using. Told I had to wait until the new version on the IMG comes out and that could be months and it still might not fix the problem. We can put a man on the moon but Verizon can't get their {word filter avoidance} together. Now I am stuck with component cables hanging on my wall because I can't use the in wall HDMI cables I spent good money having set up.
UNACCEPTABLE!!!!
I pay a lot of money every month and I am getting less than I'm actually paying for. I asked the rep today to have a manager call me back to discuss. They said one would call immediately. I'm still waiting.
Can anyone out there help!!! I'm sure if someone checks my account they can see that this is an issue, and quite frankly I'm beyond annoyed with the lack of customer service and engineering experience to actually troubleshoot and fix a problem.
Hopefully someone from Verizon is monitoring this board that can actually effect some change.