Who has Digital Cable TV?

[MonkeyMama]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

LOL.

My hubby and I did not have cable until we were like 25. Poor us. Unfortunately it is one of those evils, you can never go back - hehe.

Honestly, I could care less - not a t.v. person. But when my hubby decided to stay home with the kids, He demanded cable t.v. + HBO. For sanity. We still fight once in a while about the extreme costs of HBO. But we do have a local cable provider with excellent service and I don't think the price is too bad. It is about $100/month for all the fancy cable + internet.

Sometimes I think back to all those years of no cable, and I Can not believe I am paying this damn bill.

DVR is another luxury you can never go back, but we got ours free eons ago and as such have no monthly fee. I dread the day that thing dies and we have to upgrade. I Will keep it forever if I Can. Though we don't have a lot of fancy features and sometimes I secretly wishes it does die so we can one of those fancier newer models.

[pyotr]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

We finally did get it all set up and the DVR is actually quite a time saver, potentially a money saver too. Whereas before whenever my son wanted to sit and watch something on TV, it was a PITA to get him off the couch - with the DVR I can now just tell him, I'm recording it - I push the red record button on the remote - and he now has no excuse for sitting on his butt watching TV. Also, we no longer need watch anything in real time - by delaying any viewing til at least 30minutes later, we save time by being able to skip through all commercials. Since I'm such a advertising-to-kids hater - this DVR-delayed viewing system is a godsend.

The main things we watch are sporting events like NFL games or documentaries. My daughter loves Noggin. I've found that whenever they have the gimmes at BJ's or whatever, I can now tell them - we'll record it when it comes on digital cable and they promptly quiet down. I've set our DVR to record all occurrences of Mr.Rogers neighborhood, Blue's Clues, Benny Hill and Twilight Zone - awesome. I can prevent my kids watching commercials, and I can save ~15minutes per hour of typical viewing by fast-forwarding through them. Best of all, with the dual tuner on the provided DVR, whenever my kids are watching something else, I can simply flip through the on-screen menu and find what I wanted to watch and set the DVR to record it to watch later. By being able to fast forward through programs, I find that I don't waste as much time glued to TV like a zombie, rather I use it to gather information quickly by scanning, then stop it when something else comes up. I like the on-screen live programming guide which I can scan through fast and the search function - I could find a movie I wanted to record like Raising Arizona and set the DVR to record it whenever it comes on in the future. I've set my machine to record the upcoming new Amazing Race, the entire series with no repeats, a very convenient DVR feature.

On the digital channel line up, channels that I've become addicted to are: Free On Demand - especially the A&E and Golfchannel stuff, I love CNBC, BloombergTV, TMC and AMC. I predict that I will no longer need to rent movies from netflix or local video stores. I've got probably around 300 real channels plus a bunch of junk channels and music only stuff, about 1000 channels in all. Overall, the $100/month might not be such a bad deal afterall. But if it weren't for a bored grandparent at home, I'd probably live happily without it.

[MonkeyMama]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

I forgot to mention that - I am not sure if it is good or bad that you can watch twice as much t.v. in 1/2 the time. LOL. But overall it is amazing the time saved...

[vsjhoc]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

No cable TV in my house. I bought a DVD player only when the ex-fiance moved out with his and I thought I would need one. I probably use it once every 3 months. Just too damn busy these days...

[Bookie]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

Timely topic. I got home to discover a notice that the cable service at my apartment was an illegal feed being pirated from the service provider. If I wanted to avoid legal action, I needed to IMMEDIATELY call the provided phone number. Interesting.

I don't own a television set.

[shelbylovesmelby]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

Can't afford Cable period. It's a luxury I'd like for winter though. But since we don't have it we'll have to settle for watching movies we own, movies from the library, and or regular local tv.

[vsjhoc]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

Timely topic. I got home to discover a notice that the cable service at my apartment was an illegal feed being pirated from the service provider. If I wanted to avoid legal action, I needed to IMMEDIATELY call the provided phone number. Interesting.

I don't own a television set.

Bookie, let us know if you need bail money.

[Broken Arrow]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

Doh! Forgot to scratch Bookie off my list of people to mail in my latest get rich quick money making scam.

[Bookie]

Re: Who has Digital Cable TV?

Doh! Forgot to scratch Bookie off my list of people to mail in my latest get rich quick money making scam.

You may have done reasonably well even without me. According to the property management, the cable company blanketed the complex with these notices. Tenants are asked to leave them at the office. The matter will be referred to the corporate legal counsel.

I wonder how many people the cable company signed last week.