Posted on 01/06/2005 5:27:49 PM PST by holymoly
I bet the sales channels pay the companies to be there.
Channels like NasaTV, Cspans, public service stuff are probably free to rebroadcast. (they also stream on the internet)
The 120 or whatever is seriously padded.
you must have a newer receiver then I do, do you have the multiple LNB one with the elliptical dish for HDTV?
Exactly!
Cafeteria style, if you will.
OK, thank you.
FR the source of truth yet again.
no just round.
I assume they'll stop rinning those "pig" ads about cable price hikes now.
kewl for canucks
We may drop Dish Network as soon as the increases hit. Only have the basic. I like around 5 different channels but like others have said, 90% of them are never watched, not even once. It does give an excellent picture tho.
My pet peeve about DirecTV is their "Paid Advertisements" that start around 12am pst. We in effect pay them to watch something that someone else has paid them to broadcast. If the ads started at 3am pst I wouldn't care so much. /end rant
I have C-Band (big dish) I can choose my own programming and the prices are a lot cheaper than the small dish.
In short, drop Viacom.
Sounds great to me.
I canceled my Dish Network service. For as little as there is worth watching on the various channels, it's just too expensive. Rates have gone up 25% or more in the last four years.
I have no complaint about Dish Network's service...it's the programmers that are the problem. Their quality keeps going down, while they charge Dish and DirecTV more.
For example, compare A&E of 10 years ago with today. It's pure rubbish now.
We've discussed dumping our Time Warner Cable, but at times such as the beginning of the Iraq War, we'd be crying for news, so we'll keep it.
Where we live, we're cornholed...no "over air" works, so it's the lesser of two expensive evils; pretty basic cable at around $45 a month,or satellite - which I've heard not much good about.
So...I guess we'll just keep plunking the $45.00 down to TW to keep Ted Turner's ability to quaff the finest gin intact.
I've seen some excellent Canadian and British programming that is unavailable here except through BitTorrent.
Forget to record a show? No problem; download it via BitTorrent. The internet has become my Tivo.
No mention of VOOM? They have the best offering of HD programming among the three.
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