We pay for T.V. service and nothing on
09-28-2010, 04:11 PM
#71
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Yes over 500 channels of garbage here, and yes, anything decent is a repeat. I am about to go with local channels and turn the rest of it off. Johannes and I go to the library and check out DVDs to watch. They are free, and at least you know what you are watching.
09-28-2010, 04:16 PM
#72
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Yes this is one of those times I would have liked to have been a mouse in his pocket when the t.v. debate was discussed on his C.B radio and he came up with some of the reasons to keep service. Hmm. Was it all me or were other guys discussing the sanity of their better halves?
09-28-2010, 04:41 PM
#73
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I agree nothing on tv the same thing over and over. My big bitch is you got paid tv so you didn't have all the adds, well it seems like now there are more adds on the ones that were supposed to be adds free.
09-28-2010, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by cjaye44
It's one of my pet peeves also. Out here only satellite is available and I'm seeing the same show repeats I watched on cable in Tulsa 3 years ago. I'm ready to give mine up :thumbdown: :thumbdown: The rates keep going up and nothing to watch. Supposedly I get 120 channels and I'm only interested in less than 10. Why can't you just pay so much for each channel you want!
09-28-2010, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by twistedsheets
In California the T.V. stations went to digital. So an antenna on your roof didn't matter. You had to go out and upgrade your T.V. to a digital T.V. (money) and buy a digital receiver(money) and when you started adding stuff up was it worth the money to receive a few local stations? And then there was the how do you hook all this stuff up. Yeah they offered some certificates to get the digital box at a reduced rate. Most didn't get it tho tho applied in time. Some news stations graciously went to Seniors homes and got them up to recieve the signal. But maybe a handful got the help. When I moved Mom back into this apartment so the hospital nearby to get her rushed to, ATand T offered U-verse T.V. 99.95 a month. Unlimited long distance phone service, call waiting w/ internet and satelite T.V. Did it bill out like that NO. The phone and internet w/ taxes runs just under $70 and the t.v. was billed separately thus just under $70. No thrills t.v. no hbo or other movie channels. Signed a 2 yr contract also. which will end soon.I went round and round about why the bill was separate and threatened to cancel They could care less said go ahead. I will still have to pay off the money for the CONTRACT. So what do you do. Mom needed the T.V. she was bedridden. So now I myself am here alone since she passed 99 % of the time. My hubby is against me cancelling as he figures I will go Looney tunes if I don't atleast have the T.V. as human voice whether or not anything is on. And he wants to see the shows when he comes of the road he has me record on dvr. Yes there are a few I like also.But my debate is over is it really worth the expense versus my sanity(that is hubbys defense MY SANITY. However he said if he comes home and finds I am having a torrid love affair with some news caster or some character off a show , he will reconsider, as he is having the nearest PSYCHO WARD evaluate me! Until then I have been told the the service stays on.
09-28-2010, 09:13 PM
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We don't subscibe to cable or satilite. We have a converter box that gives us the channels we watch but before that we watched what ever we wanted when we want on the computer. It is free. We use Hulu alot. the shows that are popular are usually on the day after. We don't worry about the tv and their schudule we just go there when we want. some we didn't get we just watch them as a movie night. For ex. }"burn notice" we watched the whole last season and had popcorn for a movie night. there is also crackle.net
09-29-2010, 06:49 AM
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I think the price that cable gets stinks. We pay for channels that we never watch, 2 or 3 government access channels. We have our internet hooked up to the cable and we have the fastest speed. It is so slow and when we call the cable company to complain they tell us it's not them and to call someone else. When it storms everything goes out and I live in a city with underground wiring. They called one day and wanted us to sign up for their phone service. Told them that if the quality of the phone service it like the cable and internet they could go jump in the lake.
09-29-2010, 07:05 AM
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But tina, how is the reception??
Imy place is beneath a small hill, I don't get good reception on the cell phone, wonder how the reception for an antenna will be like,
and yes the cable, satellite and the other one, they all give a bunch of channels we don't watch. I accidentally got onto a contract with this cable here in Raleigh, but when it is over, I plan to cancel cable, keep Road runner(online computer, etc) and get me an antenna, and just use hulu. and can get the various channels online to watch the shows! got netflix too, can rent from redbox too! so whats the problem?? Me!
Imy place is beneath a small hill, I don't get good reception on the cell phone, wonder how the reception for an antenna will be like,
and yes the cable, satellite and the other one, they all give a bunch of channels we don't watch. I accidentally got onto a contract with this cable here in Raleigh, but when it is over, I plan to cancel cable, keep Road runner(online computer, etc) and get me an antenna, and just use hulu. and can get the various channels online to watch the shows! got netflix too, can rent from redbox too! so whats the problem?? Me!
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