# Cable TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 1999, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv/12132 "1999-12-15T08:51:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv/12132/21 "1999-12-18T20:09:00Z")
No cable, but the best channels on my dish are The Learning Channel, The History Channel, and Discovery. Then all the sports channels. * * * Wishing all you at the SDMB Happy Xmas and a GREAT 2000 and beyond! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv/12132/22 "1999-12-19T20:14:00Z")
We had Primestar, now Direct TV (they bought Primestar). More channels – esp. more HBO – but still not much that’s watchable. Since I got the PC last Christmas (from my mom, thank you very much), the TV is pretty much idle except for football. Some nights after work, I don’t even turn it on. (Well, except for South Park – their Christmas musical was a hoot.) When my eyes start to blur from looking at the PC monitor, I pick up a book or channel surf. I usually stop at HGTV (Room by Room is good, if you’re the redecorating type and don’t have much $$) – or TLC or History (love the weather disaster stuff) and BBC – for the sitcoms. Networks – Will and Grace, Frasier, and NYPD Blue (if ABC ever gets it going again). But if I had to do it again, I’d stick with basic cable. I really wouldn’t be missing much. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv/12132/23 "1999-12-19T20:19:00Z")
Forgot to mention – you don’t have to scoop snow off the cable like you do off the dish – hubby and I are taking turns trekking to the back yard to brush off every 1/4 inch of snow – the danged dish is pointing off to the southwest too. Who’da thunk it? ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv/12132/24 "1999-12-20T04:45:00Z")
When you come right down to it commercial TV is going to go where the most money is…LCD (Lowest Common Denominator). And, if I may say so, I don’t believe the majority of folks on this board fit that description. So if you already don’t like 90% of what comes from the networks, there’s a chance you won’t like 90% of what comes off the cable. There’ll just be more of it. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv/12132/25 "1999-12-20T04:54:00Z")
Harlan Ellison said it best: “90% of science fiction is crap, but 90% of anything is crap.” –Baloo * * * I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days -W.C. Fields [http://members.tripod.com/~Bob\_Baloo/index.htm](http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-tv/12132.md?page=1)