Posted on 08/07/2005 7:56:40 PM PDT by Born Conservative
[I like the Military Channel but there is not nearly enough new programming. I'm seeing many shows that originally aired literally 5-8 years ago and they repeat a lot, like Wings. Most of the shows on Gulf War I are literally 10+ years old. Discovery is being watered down with environmental junk science and PC crap.]
Not quite the footprint of a decent TV satellite..
The internet service is slow. But at least we have it..
What's wrong with FREE TV? This is America, not England.
TV is supposed to be FREE here, and it is. Lots of free channels with local/national/intl sports. All you need is an antenna, and most apt buildings have it for FREE, all you have to do is ASK for it. Most people don't realize their apt bldgs have a FREE antenna service.
And if you have DSL or broadband, try http://tv4all.com/portal.htm
FREE Internet TV.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Nope, I walk each way........up hill :)
It's totally bizarre.....Verizon offers it 10 miles north of us in Maryland, and 10 miles south of us in Virginia.
Verizon's infrastructure, and the cable company's are the absolute pits. The phone lines were so bad that if it rained for more than a few hours, I was without phones, and was told I would have to wait up to 3 days for a repairman to get to me.
Technology is capable of offering cable customers the ability to pick and choose individual channels instead of packages of channels. When the customers demand it, the cable companies will provide it. That way, MTV and the Queer Network (whatever it's called) will not be able to survive in the free market. Demand carte blanche cable choices.
My Comcast cable bill is $106 per month, which is why we don't go see movies as much anymore...perhaps that is why a lot of people are not going to the movies lately and the box office is down.
There are only a couple shows on TV that I watch, and they are on free channels. Otherwise, I don't pay for cable. If I really need to go see a football game, I can go to the local watering hole and watch, for merely the cost of a couple beers.
Once Cable TV pulls it's head out of it's a** and gives us a system where we can pay for only the channels that we want, then I'll give them my money.
I've stated this a few times before. Cable was originally advertised as COMMERCIAL FREE TV. Now we watch more commercials than programming.
We pay to watch commercials, and every time they add more channels, we pay more to watch them.
Can you really get the **full** effect of Baywatch (the slow motion runs, etc) with this?
I think Rockville is a bit further north from me than 10 miles. I'm in Accomac county VA, 5 miles south of the Chincoteague Island turn off.
I seriously doubt the DC bureaucracy has anything to do with other options........Verizon and Charter are just taking their sweet time worrying about the less sparsely populated parts of the county. I'm 2 miles off of Rte 13, my nearest neighbors are chickens.....and they don't use TV, telephone or computers :)
Good enough for FReeping ;)
Can you really get the **full** effect of Baywatch (the slow motion runs, etc) with this?
You can if you buy their software for $30/$50.
I can even watch shows that are unavailable in the US. "Charle Jade" is a very cool sci-fi show a la "Blade Runner" currently airing in Canada and South Africa. The new "Doctor Who" series is currently available only in the UK...
...and in my living room courtesy of BitTorrent.
The picture was incredible but I only ended up having the converter connected for about 30 minutes before I called and cancelled the service.
The reason being because every time I changed the channel, I got a pop-up that took up about 1/3 of the bottom of the screen with the channel information AND a little static advertisement box.
I mean....WTF?
At this point in my life, I didn't know that the Bar of Annoyance could be so dramatically raised by anything other than say, becoming incontinent or accidentally marrying Susan Sarandon.
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