so, the cable guy came :)

[posol]

exactly... last night i was flipping through.... and there was still nothing on.

i wish you could make your own pacakge.... like $1 a channel or something.

i'd buy

nbc abc fox, fx, tbs, pbs, history, discovery, tlc, weather channel, vh1, oln, spike, speed

thats it.

 

[Bob Vila]

what abotu skinemax and hbohhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

 

[reckedracing]

package deals fucking blow

mostly garbage but you need the whole package for the one channel you want

the cable companies use little blockers/filters that just filter out certain ranges
if you want all the channels just remove that filter yourself, but its a little illegal...

my friend had digital cable with 2 digital boxes all the channels etc etc
kept it for 2 months then returned the boxes etc...
now he has free standard cable with all the channels like mtv/history/speed etc etc

 

[posol]

i couldn't name you 1 show on hbo.... and who needs skinamax when theres myfreepaysite and canal96? lol

 

[phyregod]

I watch discovery, spike, and cnn. Then switch to the "hallmark" channel for an episode of M*A*S*H about every other night.

Thats really about the only channels I watch. But my cable has been hooked up since I got there, and I've never paid a penny for it. Although its a little bit fuzzy, I can't bitch about free. My house has had free cable for 8 years that I know of. (I know the people that owned it before me)

And when they find it and fix it (if they ever do) I'm going dish so I can get MTV/2 and Comedy Central. God I miss those channels.

 

[posol]

dish sucks... ask E

and i can'tbeleive your cable provider doesn't have comedy central... thats included in basic cable here...

but really, you're not missing much.

re-runs of dave chappelle...
re-runs of SNL...
jon stewart...
more re-runs
lame comedy....

 

[reckedracing]

comedy central is included on standard cable service, but not on basic...

at least not in my area

 

[CiViC_SOHC]

I got extended and it sucks like donkey kong! We used to pay like 220 for internet and our DC. We had the biggest plan. I loved it becuase I ALWAYS watch movies. But now that we are moving we are cutting costs becuase we have 2 houses. The house I am moving out of that I am the only one living here is like 1700 a month. So we are selling it ASAP lol.

 

[E_SolSi]

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dish sucks... ask E

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Originally posted by E_SolSi@Aug 23 2005, 02:31 PM
lol

i have dish network
im not overly impressed
i have 180 channels of NOTHING

i have like 12 home shopping channels
2 channels of 24hr horse racing
5 nickelodeons
6 channels of televangelism
4 different versions of lifetime
the weather channel without any of the "local on the 8's" information
3 channels of game shows
2 golf stations
a reality TV station
a soap opera channel
at least 10 channels that are basicly public access

its a fucking joke
sure theres a lot of channels but 90% of them are fucking worthless
i kinda like having 5 discovery channels and 3 history channels... but that is about the only thing that i have seen as a bonus so far
speed sucks, it might as well be the fucking nascar channel
the 9 HBOs never have shit worth watching on them
the 11 channels in the Showtime unlimited package all suck balls too
ive got all of the regular local network stations but they all suck ass and i never watched them before so i dont really give a fuck about them now either

so now with about 3 times as many channels as i use to have, i still watch the same 5 fucking channels that i watched before, because nothing is on any of the other fucking channels

at least with most digital cable services you can get "on demand"... sure the selection isnt always the best but it gives you a hell of a lot more options
you can pick from about 300 different movies (updated all the time)
you can watch entire seasons of shows like the sopranos
you can watch all of the rally races that they played on speed when you were sleeping
and you can start them and stop them whenever you want

digital cable > satelite TV

i just wish i didnt have such a shitty cable company... i cant wait for comcast to buy out my area
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ok so that was about 2 weeks after i got the dish
now about another month later, it has been about the same
the channles still suck, there still isnt shit on
but one more big issue has shown up.... signal loss

today for instance... its fucking pouring outside.... its one of those days that you just want to lounge out and watch TV.... but i cant because the fucking dish isnt getting any signal !!!
this has happened 4 times since i got this service... i'd be sitting there watching something and the damn dish would just cut out... sometimes i would only lose a few chanels... most of the time it would come back within a short amount of time... so far today this fucking dish has been out for almost 2 hours
i tried calling the number it says on the help screen for customer support to see if there is anything i can do about this... after dicking around with the automated system for about 10 minutes i finally get to talk to a real person... wooo hooo!... so he asks me for some account information... then tells me he has to transfer me to the proper dept...
then the fucker HANGS UP ON ME!!!
now if i want to call back i will have to fuck with that stupid recording again...

i really think im going to go back to my old shitty cable service... there was less channels, but just as much worth watching... and the service almost never went out so i actually had SOMETHING TO WATCH!!!!!

Dish Network is fucking garbage

 

[CRX-YEM]

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exactly... last night i was flipping through.... and there was still nothing on.

i wish you could make your own pacakge.... like $1 a channel or something.

i'd buy

nbc abc fox, fx, tbs, pbs, history, discovery, tlc, weather channel, vh1, oln, spike, speed

thats it.

actually the FCC is moving to approve such things as a la carte services

 

[dveit]

i have direct tv and I love it. not too many channels, everything I need, good price, good reception. haven't gotten 1 "bad signal" yet since i've had it (2+ years)