# Cable TV can Go to Hell! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 17, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186 "2001-09-17T16:27:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buddy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@buddy1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddy1)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/1 "2001-09-17T16:27:20Z")
I’ve had it…I’m getting disconnected next week. I can’t take the shear volume of crap that my cable TV service shoves down my throat! -Even the channels that USED to be good (TDC, TLC)now churn out cheaply made, stupid “documentaries”, laced with commercials! -I was trying to watch “BRAVEHEART” last night on cable…I literally lost the train of thought because the commercials were so long! By the end of the movie, they were literally sending 5 minutes of the movie for 8 minutes of commercials! This torture is unbelievable! To top it off, my cable provider just raised the cost of basic service by 12%! So, I’m going back to local broadcast only…down with cable!! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/2 "2001-09-17T16:49:10Z")
Oh sure. What are ya tryin’ to do? Put me outta work? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/3 "2001-09-17T22:31:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by buddy1 \* > \*\*So, I’m going back to local broadcast only…down with cable!! \*\* Do what I did over 4 years ago - get a satellite dish. Join us… ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/4 "2001-09-17T22:55:13Z")
I’m old enough to remember when the appeal of cable TV was that since we were PAYING for it, there wouldn’t BE any commercials. \ ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/5 "2001-09-18T03:19:42Z")
yessss… my preciousssss… come to meee, and my preciousss “EchoStar[sup]tm[/sup]” Dishhhhh… you will be oursssss… [sub]and now for the riddles… ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/6 "2001-09-18T03:24:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Cable TV can Go to Hell! Hasn’t it already? Sure seems like it to me, anyways. \ You willlll find no interest in any TV showssss. You willll buy a DVD player (if you don’t have one already) and watch movies all day looonng. \ ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/7 "2001-09-19T00:19:31Z")
Recently got AT&T digital with every premium channel. They have been showing Punchline 6 times a week for the past 7 months. They actually had the audacity to put “Kentucky Fried Movie” on pay-per-view. Gosh, the movie’s only 30 years old - sure I’ll pay to see it again. (when pigs fly and carry passengers). I can’t believe Showtime, HBO et al are getting away with showing the same 15 year old movies over and over with hardly ever anything new worth watching. If they MUST show old movies, how about a few good ones once in a while? Sheesh! Who do I complain to??? ---
**Author:** ![cheezit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/8 "2001-09-19T14:40:24Z")
I must live in the only place in the United States that has a cable system that is actually **better** than a satelite system. I used to have DirecTv with _everything_ they had to offer. (Except for Playboy and all the worthless sports channels.) I disconnected the satelite system and went to cable. Why, you ask? Because they had 90% of the channels that the satelite system had and it costs **less**. $20.00 less a month for the same channels, all digital, _and_ I get local channels without any hassell like having to get a bullshit waver. I even get 45 music channels (not 30 like the satelite). I, for one, won’t go back to satelite any time soon, unless the cable system doubles it’s rates overnight. As an added advantage, the cable system here is owned by the silent half of Microsoft. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/9 "2001-09-19T14:51:21Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Mikahw \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Cable TV can Go to Hell! It’s why they bury the cable. We were sick of Warner’s monopolistic attitude, got a dish and have no regrets. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/10 "2001-09-19T15:33:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pohjonen \* > **They actually had the audacity to put “Kentucky Fried Movie” on pay-per-view.** The alternative, of course, is putting non-stop reruns of the excruciating unfunny Gallagher on comedy central. I don’t know which is more audacious. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/11 "2001-09-19T15:57:02Z")
Kinda makes me glad I don’t even own a television set, actually. 😃 Robin ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/12 "2001-09-19T16:01:42Z")
Wow! I wouldn’t know how to have sex without a remote in my hand. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/13 "2001-09-19T16:07:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Wow! I wouldn’t know how to have sex without a remote in my hand. \*\* …or instructions. Sorry, **lieu**. -smile- ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/14 "2001-09-19T16:08:00Z")
If you dislike commercials, buy a VCR and fast forward past them. Or simply rent Braveheart. ---
**Author:** ![Bhudda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@Bhudda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bhudda)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv-can-go-to-hell/82186/15 "2001-09-19T17:15:53Z")
Too bad the cable channels don’t operate like PBS in broadcasting a show. Play the entire show, then at the end list the sponsors, advertise other shows and have comercials to the top of the hours, etc. for the time for the next shows. HBO, Showtime, and all the extra fee channels do this. I am in agreement, if you are paying for the channel, cut out the extreme commercials. These companies have a right to earn some profit, but not ram the ungodly amounts of commercials on us. For God’s sake, broadcast companies do it because that is how they are to recoup costs. Now we have the cable channels trying to get money from us to pay for the programming and from the traditional broadcast channels, which just makes it hard on the broadcast channels. Name one show on cable that is really worth the money they get from the advertising, or much less the cable fees.