Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: If 'a la carte' happened today...
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:09 PM, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote: I solved the entire dilemma. I cancelled my DirecTV on Monday. I had cable very briefly last year at the behest of my roommates (it was their place, I was living there rent free and borrowing their truck... I figured cable was the least I could provide), but I've gone without cable for most of the past five years and haven't missed it. I include the links to the iTunes Store in my Quickie Reviews because that's where I tend to discover new shows. If a show is good I'll seek out which online means of distribution it uses (typically the network's website or Hulu). If it is really to my liking (i.e. Top Gear) it gets purchased on iTunes. I did borrow a friend's Netflix for Arrested Development, the first season of the US House of Cards, and Sense8. I'll watch BBC news via LiveNation, local news via their respective apps or websites, and I buy the Le Tour de France app every year. Having converted all my DVDs and VHS onto a single external drive, I have access to nearly all the classic shows (and obscure shows) I'd like (though if anybody has season two of the CBS CIA drama The Agency, please contact me... I was in the Peace Corps at the time and I really liked season one). I rarely go to movies (maybe one or two a year). My media budget is about as inexpensive as you're likely to find. I don't live near Mt Wilson (if I did I'd practically live at Griffith Park whenever I wasn't working or eating Italian at Palermo's) but it sounds like K.M. has found a balance with an old antenna. There are probably shows we both miss out on because of how we choose to stay connected, but I suspect neither of us are missing much. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[TV orNotTV] Re: If 'a la carte' happened today...
I solved the entire dilemma. I cancelled my DirecTV on Monday. I should point out that I live just under 25 miles away from Mount Wilson, from which virtually all broadcast television service -- excluding some LPTVs -- transmits, and I get great reception even though I am using the ancient antenna which is mounted in the attic of my apartment building. (I mean ancient as in it was already there when I moved in back in 1994, has not been replaced since, and no one at the property management company knows when it was originally installed. It might have been there when Newton Minow made his vast wasteland speech, for all I know.) Anyway, excluding a whole bunch of foreign language, religious, and home shopping channels which I never watch, here's what I get with the antenna: - All the traditional broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW) from OOs, plus the all-rerun networks MyNet and ION. - Two traditional English-language independents and one non-commercial indie (KCET, which has the English-language feed of NHK on one of its subchannels). - Two PBS stations, one of which also runs PBS World (the other is owned by the L.A. Unified School District and uses its subchannels for instructional programming and WorldView. - Classic television channels Antenna TV, Cozi, Decades, Laff. MeTV and Retro (plus the all-classic game show channel Buzzr). - Movie channels This, Movies!, GetTV, Escape, Grit, and The Works. I'm not sure where to classify Bounce anymore as they moved all the reruns to daytime and are all-movies at night now. 30 channels. No monthly bill. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: If 'a la carte' happened today...
The Encore suite is on a lot of the upper basic tiers, including mine (Comcast Xfinity Chicago). Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:44 PM, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote: Encore Action is a basic channel now? Since when? On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 2:02:00 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: ... which channels would you most likely pay for? https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/digitalsmiths-unbundling-survey.jpg -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[TV orNotTV] Re: If 'a la carte' happened today...
Encore Action is a basic channel now? Since when? On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 2:02:00 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: ... which channels would you most likely pay for? https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/digitalsmiths-unbundling-survey.jpg -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[TV orNotTV] Re: If 'a la carte' happened today...
Kevin, in part: And is Adult Swim its own channel, or are people confused? It and CN are regarded separately for Nielsen purposes... have been since '05. B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
