Smart TV

What's up with these cable television companies? The rates are astronomical, the service is bad and today I wanted to throw the DVR out the window. For the amount of money I pay for basic television service and the DVR, someone should come here and change the channel for me. So aside from shoddy service on days there is bad weather, or even outages due to it sometimes I feel like I'm watching a foreign movie with a bad dub job. I hear words and then I see lips moving or vice a versa. Honestly, those mild issues I can ignore. My deal breaker for cable is how the DVR works. For some reason, most days it records the show just before it ends. Of course it's always a cliff hanger too!. The good guy is hanging off the roof by his finger nails while the bad guy proceeds to tap dance on his hands and then the next second I see - Save - Delete - Restart. Awesome! I find it just as irritating when I tape one show then go to watch it and it's a totally different show. It says the correct title but the taped show isn't even close to what I wanted. I should blame the actual television station for changing the programming. But honestly isn't that little box under the TV smart enough to figure out what I want to see? No? I mean for $82 a month and you get aggravation with it? I better buy stock in antacids or cut cable out of my life!