You pay more and more and are getting less and less in return. Would you like to pay only for the channels you love instead of paying a whole package that you mostly don’t watch?
I don’t watch TV daily and have not subscribed to cables. So I don’t have problem with them. How about you?
I don’t watch television.
I have Roadrunner for my computer and I luv them. They came out and installed my cable to a different room for $27 and the guy came out the day they promised even though he didn’t make it until almost 7 PM and was obviously exhausted. My cable was up and running in the new room in an hour.
More than I can say the bloody phone company ever did for me.
I ditched my cable provider in Jan. 1997, in favor of DISH Network. The local company (which has been bought out three times in the past 10 years) has sucked since day one.
I’m actually quite pleased with my cable operator. The cable internet access has never been down and it’s very fast. And they just introduced on-demand movies. But they’re all crappy movies. Oh well.
I find the price of cable outragious (and I can’t even spell it). I do watch a lot of TV, and even with that in mind, there are maybe 20 channels (or more) I do not, and will never, watch, and I am paying because it is part of a package. If I’d want to reduce the cost I would have to eliminate the channels I actually do watch, like TLC, Discovery, or the Sports channels hubby watches.
Cable company is all happy to advertise 500 channels (broadband) but I really don’t care about having the privilege to listen to music on channel 473… and they have raised their price for the second time this year.
We thought about getting a dish, but I don’t “trust” the thing for some reason, seem it goes down a lot.
I currently have cable, but will eventually quit. Maybe I’ll get a dish, but probalby not. After all, if I had them I’d only end up watching television.
I currently have cable. Their service used to suck, but now that another cable company has come to town, they have an almost exaggerated courtesy. Competition is good. When they were the only game in town, they didn’t give a flying fart if you were engraged by their shoddy service, but now they grovel.
My kids watch nickelodion and the cartoon network. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have cable. And it really irks me that I pay around $30 a month for extended cable for those two stinkin’ channels. I only watch a couple basic cable channels like WB and FOX.
I have never had and probably never will have cable. I live in fear of paying exorbitant amounts of money only to find that, even with 100 channels to choose from, there’s still nothing on TV worth watching …
We got screwed over on the billing by every cable company we subscribed to, until we noticed that everything we watched came through nice and clear using the bunny ears on the TV, so we cut ourselves loose and haven’t missed it much.
The parents have Dish Network. I do watch occasionally and the main reason I like it is because it tells you the name of the show at the top of the screen whenever you switch channels, and all the channels are grouped by subject matter (I usually surf A&E, Biography, History and History International as they’re channels 118, 119, 120, and 121.
The only time there is problems with the dish is when it’s raining heavily/storming or the sun spots get it or the northern lights occur or the planets align incorrectly or I can’t find where I put my left sock or something like that.
Don’t have cable. I would love to have the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and so on, but I’m dirt poor, and really have to think about food before I can think about TV. So I have no business in this thread.
I actually just came here to say that I misread the thread title, at first, and thought it said “Have you fed your Cable operator yet?” Heehee. I wondered why he was chewing on the furniture…
After the Super Bowl in January, I plan to dump my cable for good. Far too much money for the amount of time I actually use it.
I dearly wish cable would be offered ala carte as opposed to tiered packages. Then it would be more worth it to me.