Who needs reality TV, we have reality... Walt, who only ever watches Futurama anymore...
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Rolf <r...@winmutt.com> wrote: > We've been without cable(sattelite) for a year and don't miss a minute. Even > when you pay hundreds of dollars for cable you still end up flipping through > the whole spectrum without finding anything to watch. And most of its > rubbish anyways. Mostly I got tired of paying to watch commercials to > support tv, commercials paid for by products that I already by anyways. > Idiotic circle if you ask me. If I pay for something don't sell me any ads. > Atleast try to minimize it. I know that the last mile is the most expensive > part but really the technology these days makes maintenance so low cost. > > We have netflix and hulu and pretty much only watch PBS these days. Outside > of the mcneil leherer news hour there is something always on for me and the > kids. One pbs station I dont get has 24kids channel and 2 regular other > subcarriers. Really wish we got that station. I need a pretty big antenna to > get it, last vhf (uhf?) station in the area that broadcasts. > > Amazingly enough instead of watching tv we actually interact with each other > and save the tv for the "good stuff". > > Of course if you like reality TV shows then maybe cable is your best choice. > > -Rolf > > On 09/26/2010 07:47 PM, Allan Streib wrote: >> >> I'm growing tired of forking over $$$ to the cable company every month >> when I only watch about 10% of the chanels available. >> >> The last straw was that they've decided they're going to encode all the >> channels, so I'm going to need another damn box and remote just to watch >> TV. They say it is to enhance their service, but I suspect the real >> reason is to combat piracy and to track what people are watching so they >> can sell this data to marketing companies. >> >> I'm thinking of going back to over-the-air (OTA) TV. I'm in a fringe >> area, so I'd need a roof mast if not a tower. Looks like $100 would buy >> a good HD antenna, which would be offset in one month after canceling >> cable. >> >> Unknown costs for a mast or tower. Anyone have experience with this? >> >> Here's a tower for sale close to me, is this price high, decent? >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160469554963 >> >> Allan >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
