Re: Dish vs Cable
- From: The Man Behind The Curtain <noway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:40:42 GMT
Scooby wrote:
"The Man Behind The Curtain" <noway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:k4yOf.932$x94.87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxWes Newell wrote:On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:50:40 -0700, Dan G wrote: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?
I can't imagine anything more mind-numbingly disgusting than watching onlySo you never watch anything on the free networks. Interesting. Just
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.
curious what you consider disgusting crap?
This is a perfect example of someone who doesn't know what he's missingI can't tell I'm missing much of anything from scanning the TV guide that
because he doesn't know what he's missing.
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.:-)
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.
Exactly.
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 don't have an antenna on the roof. It's on the table next to the TV. Gets me about 40 digital channels here in the SF Bay Area, though some of them are pure crap (home shopping, Latino soap operas).
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.
No, not all of it is. So far pretty much all of what I've wanted is.
Also, while you may consider the news better from local feeds, it is different. They spend a very short time on national issues.
Who does? ABC? NBC? CBS? The News hour with Jim Lehrer?
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.
I work in the TV news business and I know exactly what's on. I have to watch it at work as part of my job because we all copy each other for stories rather than look ourselves because of budget cuts. Pray tell, tell me what I'm missing that I can't get elsewhere?
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...
Never returned a late movie in my life. It's not hard to drop a two ounce object into a plastic slot on my way to work.
I'm surprised you didn't mention some of the comedy shows, though. It's true there's some saucier material than one can get over the air, and that might be a reason to subscribe. It's just not a strong enough reason all by itself.
The movie channels show a lot of movies and did fine my purpose.
Huh?
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.
Most households have lots of things that are stupid. There must be something to smoking too because most people suck that stuff into their lunge even when they're young kids and they're gasping and choking while pretending to like it so they can addict themselves. I never worry about what people do. Most people are sheep, and just do things because, well, as you just said, "it must be good or people wouldn't do it." People never had a compelling reason to gab on cell phones in the car, in restauants, in hotels, in concerts, in movies, in museums, in cafes, in offices, while jogging, either, until they became ubiquitous, especially among kids, and it was monkey see, monkey do. Me, I'm still waiting for a compelling reason to own cable TV. Especially when it has commercials, squeezes, ads that pop in and out during the show you're watching, etc., even worse than over the air TV, which is obnoxious enough in that regard.
John
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