Hey, I came up with a better slogan in 30 seconds than some gov’t hack did for probably tons of gov’t salary.
Referring to the “After August 31st there will be no more snow in Canada” which is lame because the reality of the situation is that THERE WILL BE SNOW, and that’s all there will be. Back in the old days we used to complain about the ‘snow’ when we’d get bad reception on the rabbit ears, now with the digital switch-over that is all we will get. I understand where the gov’t rimjob is coming from: after the switch ‘everyone’ will be on digital and won’t be dealing with poor reception. But it’s just such a suck slogan “No More Snow”… I would have gone with “there will be snow in august”. I think it’s catchier, and less confusing. —Cranky
This article appears in Aug 25-31, 2011.
Oooh I wondered how long it’d take before people started bitching about this.
I eagerly await my next visit to the grandrents’ place where they will likely bring this topic up and talk about it in great length.
It’s under 100 bucks for the receiver. You’ll likely get better reception. Suck it up. It’s not like you’re paying for tv right now or after you buy the receiver anyway.
Actually, the snow starts at midnight tonight – which is September. I’m getting my shovel out of the shed. No cable!
I’m not complaining about the loss of 3 channels I don’t watch, I’m complaining about the shitty info campaign provided by our gov’t. figure it out.
MITV pulled the plug a coupla weeks ago…
Right. But it’s September, appropriately named poster / commenter.
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.…
Ugghh there’s this woman that I work with who has not stopped talking about this for the past several weeks and it’s driving me fucking insane, especially since I haven’t owned a TV for like a year and a half now, so I have no interest in the topic whatsoever.
just get a service provider to hook up cable for you (usually at a promotional rate) and then have it cut.
they never actually come around to turn it off… at least no-one I know who’d cut paying for cable has mentioned.
it’s still there… just free.
voila.
Yeah, zZz I had free cable at my old apt from the previous tenant. They eventually audit and cut it off, but it can take a while, sometimes over a year.
If you don’t pay and your account goes into default they’re quite quick to cut the line.
😀
Also: I like teevee, but I only ever watch one channel: HGTV.
70090893545 channels and I watch ONE STATION. *facepalm*
And I get all anxious when I evaluate whether or not I really need all those channels because OH HAY WHAT IF THERE’S SOMETHING ON THERE I REALLY WANT TO WATCH.
The 78753975345 channels are like a security blanket.
Also: bald men with bushy beards look funny.
/totally unrelated
OB, people like you think they could see the makers of The Never Ending Story for false-advertising.
I stick to wheel/jeopardy and food network.
I frequently want to eat the tv.
OH wait, I forgot: I watch “Best Recipes Ever” on timeshifting CBC. But I only watch it to make fun of the host.
People still have aerials? Wow, I thought the last of those disappeared twenty years ago. I live out here in the sticks and I do not know who doesn’t have a cable or satellite.
yes cranky, you are right. it is just a ploy to get you tosubscribe to their less than desirable crappy stations. digital is a bunch of shit. first time you get bad weather, it all goes choppy into those fucking little blocks and stutters like fuck. that you can;’t see half the show you were watching.
my brother has a summer place outside windsor, and now, the only station they can get is c.b.c., good fucking god, no.he is pissed, now that he has to go buy some stupid type of box to hook up, and still won’t get a signal. i have a digital t.v system here, and unhooked the cable and that, guess what? no fucking signal for atv, or global, just french channel, and cbc.
they say you need a digital converter box to hook up, well my t.v has that built in, so where is the fucking signal?just another bunch of morons, making up moron ideas, to suck your cash from you.next year, i’m going free range with my signal generator from my old ham radio set, and my big stick antenna, fuck you cable companies. i used that years ago, and got over 150 channels, a lot of foreign stuff and the local crap too.only problem was, i could not check a guide, to see what was on. i would have to manually click the range scope finder, to get my frequency.
I still have the aerials, but I’m not complaining about that. I watch everything via downloads and online broadcast. The aerials are just for the occasional time I sit down and flick the box on, which obviously isn’t very often. It will suck when they start charging by bandwidth but you can get movies for free from the library if you don’t mind the wait.
I’m just more of an outdoorsy doing stuff kinda guy….
OP, who cares. Who the fuck would still be using rabbit ears for their TVs? Christ, the picture quality would be beyond shit on an HDTV…..unless you have one of those old CRT shitbox TVs (God forbid).
I doubt any ‘cares’ you moron, read the original post ya fuckwit.
Fun fact: my 21 year old hitachi tv has better sound/reception than my 42 inch HDTV (and yes, I bought a decent brand — I don’t buy generic electronics).
The guy hooking up my digital cable a few years back couldn’t get over the picture and sound quality. Unfortunately, it’s only a 24 inch so an upgrade was necessary to the 42 because you could hardly see the TV in my rather large living room. OH well.
PS: sebastard — a lot of HDTVs have built in digital converter boxes already. I know mine does. Perhaps yours is shit and doesn’t have one?
My parents have satellite, what a waste of money.
“God forbid”
Amusing words coming from someone from a lifestyle choice that is hated by God.
My tv is less than 2 years old and doesn’t have the digital converter. and i live in a crappy apartment building that has a short in the cable, so there’s no point in subscribing to that either. I still have CBC, apparently they have a year longer to do the switch. I did like having CTV though, and I will probably miss it, but I watch almost everything online anyway.