Cable, I cant see myself paying for it

Post » Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:03 pm

What do you guys think of cable TV?

I don't think I could ever pay for cable, satellite, etc. After examining different TV packages I can't see TV subscription as a expense I'd ever get in to, especially when Im only interested in 0.5-5% of the channel(s) offered in the packages. I really only want a couple channels. I can't get it that way? I'm not interested in cable.

I don't know what these TV companies are gonna do, its a overpriced service and there's the internet which has content the TV has and content cable TV would never have
User avatar
Steven Hardman
 
Posts: 3323
Joined: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:12 pm

Post » Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:16 pm

I have satelitte TV and I only watch a few specific channels on occasion. I have internet so I don't really have many reasons to have cable/satellite TV. :P
User avatar
clelia vega
 
Posts: 3433
Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:04 pm

Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:13 am

I have a cable, telephone and internet bundle and I need in order to:
A: Watch TV now that most basic cable channels are digital and I don't have a digital converter.
B: Call people....(although I seldom do, it's just there for emergancies).
C: To log onto the internet where my main source of enertainment is---YouTube. Hell I watch that more then I watch my TV :P .
User avatar
Kaley X
 
Posts: 3372
Joined: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:46 pm

Post » Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:45 am

--On Demand movie rentals. Don't have to leave the house to rent physical things or wait for Netflix to send things. Sometimes they have movies for rent that aren't even in the theater yet. Have them before places like Netflix, too.
--Still generally higher visual quality than the internet, when you have a big screen TV. (Netflix "HD" is ok/watchable but it's definitely nowhere near HD when blown up to 50"+)
--Don't have to wait for things to buffer/download/reload (Netflix when it's not 3am, argh), aren't limited by internet outages, slowdowns, website downages, movies split up into multiple sections, etc.
--We don't have a Tivo, so their (no extra cost) On-Demand of popular TV shows (both network and cable networks) is handy.
--Sports. A lot of baseball I like to watch is no longer shown by the original, main networks anymore. They're mostly on the cable sports networks. Even my local teams.

I agree, however, that their prices for basic packages (no "pay" stations) is too much these days. I think we pay around $100 for the HD package + $20 for HBO. That's not including the internet, which we purchase separately (bundles don't offer the type of internet we need). So for us it's about paying to have options. Do we watch all those extra channels? Not really. Do we rent tons of movies? Not really. But if we feel like it, it's there. ;)
User avatar
Laura Cartwright
 
Posts: 3483
Joined: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:12 pm


Return to Othor Games