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!
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.
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?
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.
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
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