Re: Dish vs Cable

"The Man Behind The Curtain" <noway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wes Newell wrote:
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:50:40 -0700, Dan G wrote:

I can't imagine anything more mind-numbingly disgusting than watching
only
OTA programming. That's why I pay for Satellite services.
20 channels of disgusting crap is "nothing on" for me and a lot of
folks.

So you never watch anything on the free networks. Interesting. Just
curious what you consider disgusting crap?
This is a perfect example of someone who doesn't know what he's missing
because he doesn't know what he's missing.

I can't tell I'm missing much of anything from scanning the TV guide that
also list all the major premium channels. I would miss the approx. $100K
I'd have spent if I'd bene watching cable/sat for the last 30 years
though.:-)

I've lived with cable TV as a guest at other people's houses or on
vacation for as long as a month. I also have it at work. There is little
on that floats my boat. Movies I can rent and watch when I want, thank
you. The docs on History and Discovery aren't any different from PBS,
other than there's more of them, and they too are usually available on DVD
if I must have them (and I do own about 30 or 40 sets...I can watch them
any time I want and only had to pay for them once). Don't care about
sports, though if I did that would be strongest draw. Weather? We've got
several local stations here that have 24-hour supplementary weather
channels on a second frequency. Porn? I've never seen
commercially-produced porn that doesn't suck. Reruns of old TV? I'm going
to *pay* to watch something that was free in 1988 and I didn't watch then?
News? Fox? CNN? MS? Give me a break. If I want news, I'll go to real
sources, not Gerraldo or Larry King. If I want a "probing" interview with
a 22-year-old nymphette I'll go to Larry King. Court TV? Pu-lease. I
don't have enough garlic in my house to watch Nancy Grace and I won't pay
to watch 20-year-old reruns of Cops. Reality shows? Yawn?
Home-makeovers? Come make over my home and maybe I'll watch you. Pool?
Poker? Home shopping channels? Maybe when I'm 80, and in the old folks
home. Did I miss anything?



John


John, you've just argued exactly the way Wes does. You've missed the point
and argued the examples rather than address the whole idea of what the OP
was talking about.

The point is, to each his own. Wes has never had pay TV or pay DVR
services. But, he doesn't understand why people would pay for it and
continously brags about his setup of getting local channels and his MythTV
box.. Other people have their reasons too. If you've tried it and don't
like it (or never even cared to try), there is nothing wrong with that.
Some people don't watch TV at all - nothing wrong with that either. It is
all about taste and what people want. There are things that I don't care to
do and don't want to spend my money on.

But, since you listed things about channels, here are some things to
consider. First, even though much is free on locals, some people would
rather pay for service that has locals rather than put an antenna on the
roof. I'll tell you this - if Wes gets as many OTA channels as he says he
does, his antenna can't look too nice on his roof. If you believe that all
the documentary stuff you can see on pay channels is either available on DVD
or PBS, you are wrong - period. Also, while you may consider the news
better from local feeds, it is different. They spend a very short time on
national issues. A one hour news show will cover local stuff, weather,
traffic reports and maybe even a human interest story - only time left to
cover the top national items. If you want true national converage, you need
to go to a news feed instead of a local channel that does some national
coverage. There is better news than the sensationlist stuff that you've
mentioned.

You do have a point about movies, though. I've never been the renting kind,
so I didn't like having to make two trips to the store to watch a movie.
You wouldn't have to rent many movies in a month to pay for the movie
channels and then you'd have to worry about return dates, late fees, etc...
The movie channels show a lot of movies and did fine my purpose. Now, with
Blockbuster delivery and Flix, that has changed. I've cancelled most of my
movie channels and started a movie subscription.

There is plenty of good content on pay tv, or so I think anyway. There must
be something to that since most households have pay tv.

Jim


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