[jtur88]

I haven't experienced the all-blacked-out problems you described. I subscribed to the premium (1.6M) and at first could not see the difference, and just used 800 and sometimes 400 because it loaded faster. At frist, there were frequent still locks requiring re-setting (that happend a lot last fall, too) but that has stopped happening, and also now I can see some enhancement in 1.6. (I have only a 256M hard drive, cable high speed). So you might want to try again. There is a huge variation in the picture quality from one game to another, for reasons I cannot speculate on, but I noticed in the out-of-market cable games a few years ago, sometimes a game would come in with very bad quality picture.