# Free movies by my cable provider

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-movies-by-my-cable-provider/407580>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 11, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-movies-by-my-cable-provider/407580 "2007-06-11T17:13:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-movies-by-my-cable-provider/407580/1 "2007-06-11T17:13:00Z")

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I learned yesterday that I can go to my On Demand channel (999 here in CT), and select from a fairly long list of free flicks. FLIX, actually

Now of course, everyone else here already knows this, and you’re all going to tell me how friggin’ ignorant I am. But that’s okay

I’ll just [sniff] try harder to be smarter.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-movies-by-my-cable-provider/407580/2 "2007-06-11T17:47:29Z")

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Don’t feel rained on. On Demand just keeps on giving. Our has expanded from piddling to overwhelming in the year or so we’ve had it. Nowadays it’s what I check first to see if I want to watch something.

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-movies-by-my-cable-provider/407580/3 "2007-06-11T19:18:37Z")

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The better movies have a narrow window to watch but the crappy ones are available a long time. On Demand does allow you to get 3 or 4 straight hours of Ali G or any other serial show. You can zone out on it at any time.

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-movies-by-my-cable-provider/407580/4 "2007-06-11T19:56:09Z")

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I tried two movies so far and they were so bad, I gave about 15 minutes to each and left. These were a modern staging of The Scarlet Letter, and Waking the Dead.

No one’s mentioned it so far, but there were no commercials - but like I said I didn’t stick around long to be certain.