My cable provider has a feature called Pay-Per-View (PPV). Most cable providers do. My cable provider also gives me PPV in HD, which not all companies offer. I’ve found it handy every so often, but the variety isn’t that great. Actually, it’s terrible. For some reason they think I always want the movie Blade at my beck and call.

The other day I decided to buy Hostage, the Bruce Willis flick. I started it up, and to my vast annoyance the video slightly paused about every 5 seconds. This happened both live and playing back the recorded version (PVR’s are wonderful). I haven’t watched the whole movie yet, but I gotta say, if I have to sit through the whole movie with the video pausing like that, I’ll have to pull my teeth out of the ottoman afterward.

We’re years into the HD transition already, and my cable company can’t get something as basic as this working properly. For shame!

Has anyone else had HD problems that shouldn’t happen anymore?