I pay $66 a month to get Bravo and Space plus The History Channel, etc… On the History channel they have movies like Planet of the Apes (the remake) and on Space they have endless re-runs of Independence Day, I Robot, SGU (the first 10 episodes over and over). MuchMusic isn’t music anymore, it’s garbage reality shows, same thing with MuchMore…The Comedy Network has stand-up performers who tell jokes about current things like our prime minister Mr. Chretien…reruns of MASH I can handle. Here’s the question…WTF am I paying for? —Kick Me, I’m A Sucker
This article appears in Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2010.
Take your $66 a month and join one of the Sportsplex’s in HRM. You can swim, skate, exercise,and meet new people.
Either that or get some different channels…I can almost always find something interesting on TV…but I don’t watch the music stations or space or Bravo (anymore). They’ve really lost most of the shows I enjoyed.
eztv
all you need and you get it with your internet hookup.
seriously…
Engage browser and type ‘eztv’
L O L
I love hearing (& seeing) people bitch about cable !
The stupidity involved in paying for a service…that gets paid by advertisers first & foremost is double & triple dipping at its finest. It had to have been first thought up by an expolitician, & as he/she learned from their days in politics, advertise the bullshit as candy & they will come again & again !
Dump the cable dude…& save yourself $800.00 a year !
I think that, at this point, I’m only paying for cable because I want to watch live sports in HD and for those moments of wanting to watch anything at all without having to think too hard about it.
…of which you can download all those TV shows, movies, documentaries, etc online for FREE, and without commercials 🙂
don’t even have to download, most of the best stuff that the main channels provide are available through their respective websites. Granted, you need to have a fairly decent computer not to stream it without too much trouble.
and you usually watch it in pieces.
I just wait a day and get the whole thing uninterrupted. but yes, that is another excellent choice Fever.
BTW, haev any new pics of that guinea pig of yours?
adorable, he was
This is why I love my DVR. I record what I want to watch and then watch it when I want and not have to worry about nothing being on TV
http://www.ted.nu
I’ve got ‘rabbit ears’ for the local stuff, such as it is.
The cable provider can thank their need of putting Californication on some 3rd tier pay package for inspiring me to find an alternate to cable.
The reason it costs so much is because of bundling, i.e for every semi-crappy channel you want, you have to pay for 5 or 6 channels that are total crap and which you never watch. Make them ala carte, make them actually have to compete for viewers, and you will see change — they will either get better or go out of business, as many deserve to.
is that your dog haliwood?
what’s with the teddy bear zzzzzzzzzzzz
ug…why pay for cable when there’s hulu…
I really only watch the news anyway and there’s plenty of that online. Netflix is always good.
Hulu doesn’t work for us Canadian folk.
Nah, no new pics zZz. That was back when he was alive, sadly. Had a little Guinea Pig heart attack methinks. Now I’ve got a 6 month old Siberian Husky puppy. Traded up.
Hulu works in Canada… just gotta mask your IP somehow. I just wish a similar service like Netflix was in Canada. We can blame the CRTC for that one.
Small correction: Hulu doesn’t work for us Canadian folk who aren’t tech savvy.
cable t.v. doesn’t suck, it’s mostly the shit they put on, come on now, would you be happy with only 3 channels?
That would be one of my dogs, yes. lol
I wish you could pick and choose exactly which channels you wanted to receive, rather than those lame ‘packages’. This will never happen of course, they are smart enough to put one or two of the actually desirable channels in each package. Bullshit.
cool hali…dogs in costume crack me up
Life Sucks I’m ecstatic with 0 channels. I don’t even have a splitter on my internet connection for the limited amount of channels that would give me. I guess it’s 7 years or so now since I had a cable hook up. (Moved out here in 2002, cable came through for internet & cable TV in 2003?? or 2004??)
Couldn’t be happier…& all the money I’ve saved not paying for cable, I’ve put into a kick ass DVD collection 1600+ movies, not 1 bootleg copy ~:)
I personally , when i want to watch entertainment . Go to the east village in calhary and watch the crackheads do the crack dance and laugh at they’re feable attempts to pretend they are not crackheads .
Also for the ufc and comedy channels , I head to dover / forest lawn on welfare day and watch drunk natives kick the crap out of eachother . Welfare ghetto moms fighting over the last crackrock serves as my comedy channel .
All this for free . No dues no fees.
aaah what a life you lead hogmeister
Yep paingirl I certainly do . Although i do these things on week ends and evenings when i am not working . I love the free entertainment . I always spark one up and take my favorite lady friend out with me to get some chuckles out of life as i tend to see it . Gottigen street and north end dartmouth pale in comparison .
The answer is simple… read a book
I haven’t posted in ages…but I feel the poster needs this ray of light: iTunes man, iTunes. for 66 bucks a month you can buy a season pass for 1.5 tv series that are commercial free and “watch whenever you want, for as long as you want and as many times as you want” Screw cable, it’s a ripoff of repeats and garbage. You don’t even need an Apple product to have iTunes, just a credit card or iTunes points cards (note: you can buy $60 batches for $55 at Costco).
iTunes is pure win.
where they holy hell have you been der? i missed you
😀 Thanks! I have been pretty busy as of late, a brand new nephew last month and also the job hunt has been a major priority.
To be honest I missed LTWWB too, I just found that I was getting pretty negative and felt that maybe some time away would help refresh my outlook…plus one can only try to show Kay the light for so long before they realize, that’s not going to happen permentently, when she makes a breakthough it is always short-lived.
Also I was a little miffed with The Coast…they printed a pic of me for their Match site without my explicit permission, they have since offered compensation for it (but have so far failed to produce anything) but I was pretty taken aback by their complete disregard for the law. Anyone wanting to know who I am can do so if you have a copy of the Jan 28-Feb 3 edition…well I guess it doesn’t say WHO I am but you will see my smiling face on page 37.
well that sucks…i will stick with looking at mr brimley. you have missed some funny trolls and avatar changes
Oh I don’t doubt in the slightest that I missed some rather epic humor…LTWWB is always a good source of chuckles!