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What's wrong with TV

While I am sure we covered this one before I will repeat myself for the newer members. TV SUX. I watch maybe one hour a day and that's the history channel before I go to bed. Now my kids on the other hand can't live without cartoons but I have been trying to prune that back a bit. No need to sit around and rot your mind watching Reality or Pop shows.

I was paying 112.00 a month for cable and my internet. All it took was a call to the cable company and a bit of hard line haggling and my bill is now 76.00 a month. Try it and I bet you guys can get your bills discounted too. Honestly I wouldn't even pay for cable TV but they charge so much more for the internet when ya don't have the package deal.

As for AOHELL well I bet you all their employees have cable cuz Dial up SUCKS even more then TV does. Its for people who have way to much time on their hands to watch screen after screen load......and then complain about it :p:
 
go to earthlink for broadband.
same system and they dont push cable tv on ya if you dont want it.
Originally posted by grumpy
While I am sure we covered this one before I will repeat myself for the newer members. TV SUX. I watch maybe one hour a day and that's the history channel before I go to bed. Now my kids on the other hand can't live without cartoons but I have been trying to prune that back a bit. No need to sit around and rot your mind watching Reality or Pop shows.

I was paying 112.00 a month for cable and my internet. All it took was a call to the cable company and a bit of hard line haggling and my bill is now 76.00 a month. Try it and I bet you guys can get your bills discounted too. Honestly I wouldn't even pay for cable TV but they charge so much more for the internet when ya don't have the package deal.

As for AOHELL well I bet you all their employees have cable cuz Dial up SUCKS even more then TV does. Its for people who have way to much time on their hands to watch screen after screen load......and then complain about it :p:
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Originally posted by grumpy
While I am sure we covered this one before I will repeat myself for the newer members. TV SUX. I watch maybe one hour a day and that's the history channel before I go to bed. Now my kids on the other hand can't live without cartoons but I have been trying to prune that back a bit. No need to sit around and rot your mind watching Reality or Pop shows.

I was paying 112.00 a month for cable and my internet. All it took was a call to the cable company and a bit of hard line haggling and my bill is now 76.00 a month. Try it and I bet you guys can get your bills discounted too. Honestly I wouldn't even pay for cable TV but they charge so much more for the internet when ya don't have the package deal.

As for AOHELL well I bet you all their employees have cable cuz Dial up SUCKS even more then TV does. Its for people who have way to much time on their hands to watch screen after screen load......and then complain about it :p:
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How'd you do it Grump? Teach me please :(

THOR = $130 cable bill a month :mad:
 
Im not sure what our cable bill is evactly, but the road runner is 50 bucks a month...

I wonder if i got a tv tuner card, and had road runner but not cable tv if i could get tv on the tuner card...:confused:
 
Our cable bill runs about 80 bucks a month. Cable modem and expanded basic TV. I have 4 TVs hooked up in the house plus my one TV tuner card in the puter here. I love the tuner card as it really keeps things lively on the ole desktop.
 
TLC cancelled? I assume you're talking about your local cable carrier 'cause it's channel 280 on my Direct TV. I absolutely despise Time Warner which serves our area so I switched to DSS and I love it.

I don't watch any regular prime time programming except Law & Order and the Simpsons. Some of the specialty channels are what I enjoy....Tech TV, Animal, and Discovery, etc..

Another pet peeve to add to the list is when stations crush the ending credits to 1/4 screen size so they can throw more advertising in...and Spike TV is the worst. They just blantantly cover half of the screen with self-promotional crap WHILE YOU'RE WATCHING THE SHOW!!!!!

Whoever thought of that idea needs to be locked in a room with Thor and Mjollnir for an hour....he'll whip 'em into shape!
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We have 2 shopping channels & 2 preacher channels on our cable system-Charter Digital- & they're on the VHF band, so everybody gets 'em- ESPECIALLY all the "little old lady" crowd that they're aimed at. Can't really delete 'em, still says "This Channel Blocked" if you try. I just get "basic" service & it's $45 a month. Don't get me started on these b*st*rds. 99.9% sure they use some sort of time compression scheme so they can insert a few more commercials- I know U-Save Drug Store in Rogersville doesn't really advertise on "Discovery", f'rinstance.- Sandy G.
 
I use my TV for watching movies. Most of the time the woman gets her hand on the remote I grab a book and some tunes and head for the bedroom and exersize my whole brain. Having 3 sound systems but only one TV is good for you.
 
Another pet peeve to add to the list is when stations crush the ending credits to 1/4 screen size so they can throw more advertising in...


I hate that with a passion. As far as I'm concerned, that practice should be illegal. The producers of most programming make closing credits anyway. I don't see the point of the networks wasting time and money for those skanky, disgusting, brutal, bottom feeding, trashbag split credits. we can blame NBC for starting this. Of course, CBS had to copy NBC again (they alyaws do).

I used to tape AS THE WORLD TURNS and THE GUIDING LIGHT for something to watch in prime time (since most of that is crap). Since ATWT became all teens and newbies all the time and TGL just sucked, I quit both. Thank goodness for the internet. Otherwise, I'd go cuckoo (or apeshit, whichever is more severe).

If NBC, CBS and ABC had to depend on me for ad revenue, they'd go bankrupt. With the state of TV today, I'd bet Sarnoff and Paley are rolling in their graves.

This rant is brought to you today by beer.
 
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