| reply to en102
Re: cutting the cord I was teetering on cutting the cord. Tonight's mess with not being able to get the weather on the weather channel during a tornado outbreak because they were showing a movie made up my mind. Seems like all the channels nowadays are cross pollinating. Movies on news and information channels. Live action on cartoon channels. Reality TV shows on music channels. Think the only channel sticking to it's description these days is Discovery and I fear it's days are numbered. Cable gives me no reason to slap down 60 bucks a month for it anymore. More reruns, more infomercials, and more reality tv. Forget it I'm cutting the cord.
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USA | Man, that is annoying when the wind and hail is pounding on the roof and you run to see the radar/satellite image. We are lucky to have an alternate station with radar running most of the day. But, sometimes it's faster to boot the computer and go to a weather website than to turn on the Weather Channel and hope they aren't running fluff programming.
Remember when SciFi used to be primarily Science Fiction? Now they have wrestling and B grade horror movies most of the time.
The ONLY way you can watch TV anymore is with a DVR/HTPC. You can set it to watch stuff while you sleep or doing other stuff and then skip through the crap and commercials later.
I just scaled back my cable to basic cable. I need to watch two or three shows a week and they aren't online yet. I'll miss Discovery, Comedy Central, SyFy (ugh) and some others occasionally, but it's not worth $40/month. Plus they're forcing the DTA/cable box issue on us now... |
