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The ins and outs of pricey cable TV
The Daily Item (Sunbury, PA) ^ | 8/7/2005 | Jeff Gelles

Posted on 08/07/2005 7:56:40 PM PDT by Born Conservative

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To: Born Conservative
If the cost of cable TV bugs a person that much, cancel the service and go read a few books or get a hobby. 98% of what is on TV is total garbage anyway. Even my favorites (Discovery, History, Military) are decreasing in quality.

[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.]

21 posted on 08/07/2005 8:38:39 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
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To: varyouga
We are in the Southern Hemisphere. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Not quite the footprint of a decent TV satellite..

22 posted on 08/07/2005 8:38:46 PM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (When the disbeliever sees this, he will say, 'How nice if I was also turned into sand.')
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To: Deetes

The internet service is slow. But at least we have it..


23 posted on 08/07/2005 8:41:57 PM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (When the disbeliever sees this, he will say, 'How nice if I was also turned into sand.')
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To: greydog

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.


24 posted on 08/07/2005 8:42:47 PM PDT by japaneseghost
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To: 69ConvertibleFirebird
Do you ride a horse to work or take the chuck wagon?

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.

25 posted on 08/07/2005 8:43:15 PM PDT by Gabz (Smoking ban supporters are in favor of the Kelo ruling.)
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To: Born Conservative

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.


26 posted on 08/07/2005 8:43:49 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: Ciexyz

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.


27 posted on 08/07/2005 8:45:14 PM PDT by kmiller1k (remain calm)
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To: Born Conservative

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.


28 posted on 08/07/2005 8:46:49 PM PDT by Quick1
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To: Gabz
Hmmm... Looks like I'm 10 miles North of you. Actually I've had good luck with Verizon DSL. It became available about on year ago where I am (Rockville, MD). I'm upgrading to Fiber Optic Service in a couple of weeks for the same price ($30/month for 5 Meg speed. If I wanted 15 Meg speed $40/month). I wonder if D.C.'s bureaucracy has something to do with your not being able to get other options?
29 posted on 08/07/2005 8:50:18 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: Born Conservative

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.


30 posted on 08/07/2005 8:53:04 PM PDT by wizr (Freedom ain't free.)
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To: japaneseghost
And if you have DSL or broadband, try http://tv4all.com/portal.htm

Can you really get the **full** effect of Baywatch (the slow motion runs, etc) with this?

31 posted on 08/07/2005 8:54:39 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: kmiller1k
Comcast charged about $32.00 a month several years ago when we started using it. When it got to $54.00 a month about 3 years later we went to Dish and never looked back.
32 posted on 08/07/2005 8:56:09 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulfBeachClub.)
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To: 69ConvertibleFirebird

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 :)


33 posted on 08/07/2005 9:04:58 PM PDT by Gabz (Smoking ban supporters are in favor of the Kelo ruling.)
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To: Experiment 6-2-6

Good enough for FReeping ;)


34 posted on 08/07/2005 9:09:38 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops and their Family's)
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To: 69ConvertibleFirebird
And if you have DSL or broadband, try http://tv4all.com/portal.htm

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.

35 posted on 08/07/2005 9:27:21 PM PDT by japaneseghost
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To: Born Conservative
I'd be tickled if cable/sattelite was ala carte.
i only watch 4 or 5 channels and can do without the 1,453 sports channels in the typical package deal.
36 posted on 08/07/2005 10:25:36 PM PDT by tomakaze (Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.)
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To: Born Conservative
I cancelled cable and now download all my favorite programs in HDTV quality, sans commercials, via BitTorrent.

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.

37 posted on 08/08/2005 3:12:05 AM PDT by 10mm
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To: Born Conservative
Because I have a 42-in plasma I recently tried Digital Cable from my provider in Seattle: Millennium Digital Media.

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.

 

 

38 posted on 08/21/2005 11:14:23 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Every evil which liberals imagine Judaism and Christianity to be, islam is.)
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