{"id":212,"date":"2010-06-15T10:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/comcast-bought-my-new-xbox\/"},"modified":"2010-06-15T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T15:10:18","slug":"comcast-bought-my-new-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/comcast-bought-my-new-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast Bought My New Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, Comcast sent me a $150 Visa rebate card. I vaguely recall why having something to do with an account creation deposit and accepting the terms of service for my contract. Needless to say it was a pleasant surprise!<\/p>\n<p>Last week, our Xbox up and red ring of deathed. First it was doing some fun video locking up accompanied by loud crackling. I found a trouble shooting article on Microsoft&#8217;s website for it and determined it wasn&#8217;t the hard drive. Yay! It was the actual console.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, it lasted almost 4 years of infrequent use as a first or second gen Xbox. Not too shabby. The timing of it just sucked. Trey was very much looking forward to getting his couch potato on in advance of the wedding weekend. We wandered out to Best Buy and bought the plain olds arcade Xbox with no hard drive. My rationale being if the hard drive from the old console was crap, it would still be cheaper to buy that console and a huge drive separately than the elite.<\/p>\n<p>My cunning plan worked fine however and we plopped the hard drive on the new Xbox and were up and running right away. It was really nice not having to recreate gamer tags and restart all our games. <\/p>\n<p>Yay technology and thanks for the happy surprise Comcast! I take back all the nasty things I&#8217;ve said about you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, Comcast sent me a $150 Visa rebate card. I vaguely recall why having something to do with an account creation deposit and accepting the terms of service for my contract. Needless to say it was a pleasant surprise! Last week, our Xbox up and red ring of deathed. First it was doing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/comcast-bought-my-new-xbox\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,18,43],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-comcast","tag-games","tag-xbox","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68,"url":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/comcast-causes-earth-shattering-kaboom\/","url_meta":{"origin":212,"position":0},"title":"Comcast Causes Earth-Shattering Kaboom","author":"Jess","date":"April 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 So, I\u2019m a nerd girl -- In the country -- (It is the name of the blog, after all) and as such a nerd country girl, I work from home. 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