> > Anyone else out there think "fancy" TV options, like digital cable, > > premium channels, etc, is outrageously (over) priced? > > I do. I also happen to live in a free market, and I don't subscribe > for any of it.(OA HDTV only) You have that option as well. On a side > note, I always wanted to do a statistically study on "fancy" TV usage > patterns and income levels. I always found it interesting that the > first thing people on welfare do with their checks is pay the cable > bill. It would interesting to have numbers on what percentage of the > welfare payout goes to the cable/satellite companies. oh well.
Well, first, HDTV isn't much of an option for me. I live in a hole of no signal. I swear there's some force field around my block that causes cell phones and TV signals to bounce away... Anyway, I still want to try some over the air HD stuff, but I'm not wanting to drop $150 on a DVB card just yet to see if I can get the 3 channels worth of HD... I live 40mi west of Washington DC, maybe there's more digital content than I realize, but airantenna.com or whatever it was didn't give me too much hope for good HD signal. Oh well. I personally have had antenna TV only in the past, in fact, I grew up with no cable because my parents didn't see the value in it. I pretty much feel the same way to this day. PVR's have definitely changed my TV likes and dislikes too, now that I don't have to watch commercials anymore. Secondly, I agree about poor people and expensive tv. I've always wondered about it myself, and you're absolutely right. I know people who will forgo buying necessary diapers for their children to pay their $150/mo cable bill with high speed inet and every channel in existence, oh, and the $5/mo PVR rent. I actually was talking to my g/f about this not too long ago and in her social economics class talked about this, and supposedly the main reason people are motivated to spend so much on the TV they can't afford is a "keeping up with the Jones's" type thing. They don't feel poor if they have every movie channel and their kids have extreme diaper rash and smell like poop. Go figure. I tried to tell them they could pay off their massive CC debt if they just cancelled the cable and paid that money to the CC compainies instead. What did they do? File bankruptcy. Sheesh. There's a reason most poor people stay poor...
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