Do you have cable or a satellite dish?

[SarahB]

Just curious as I think once I move I won't bother with it. I'm not a TV person. If I have spare time, I either read or I'm online (or outdoors). I'm getting a computer that can burn DVDs though to have extra stuff around when the kids are at my place, but cable just isn't worth it for me. :shrug:

[candle_bright]

1. I have a satellite dish

I don't watch most of the channels I get though.

[libhill]

8. Same here -

Out of over 100 channels, I have maybe three or four that I watch with any regularity.

[donheld]

2. Without cable how could i watch Democracy Now!

:shrug:

[mike_c]

3. no TV, no cable except for broadband internet....

Happily TV free for many years.

[libhill]

9. But but but

What did you do in the pre-internet years?

[mike_c]

10. read books, did stuff, stayed busy....

I haven't had TV for any length of time in about 15 years. I did have cable TV hooked up for about six months nearly 10 years ago, but disconnected it after catching myself channel surfing after midnight with nothing to watch but ancient sit-coms, infomercials, and the Psychic Friends Network. What a horribly wasted medium.

[libhill]

11. Well

It hasn't changed much -if I see one more info-mercial for "Hee-Haw" DVDs, I'm gonna throw a brick through my TV screen.

[qb]

4. We get the unadvertised $14.85 bare bones cable

All the local stations plus a few others.

[Melynn]

5. I have cable

But I don't watch it that much. Mainly sporting events and news shows. I probably could get rid of it and save some money.

On the hand, I am very interested in satellite radio. I'm radio junkie and I thinking about getting a subscription to a satellite radio company.

[Left Is Write]

6. We have satellite.

We have DirecTV. We first got it back in '98 for GSN (I was recovering from a particular surgery, and my husband wanted to cheer me up while I had to lay around), and we stick with it because of the NFL Direct Ticket.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

7. Adelphia cable in my apartment

Dish TV at home (we need Free Speech TV and my husband's Pakistani/Indian channels).

[tjwmason]

12. Satellitte

Cable is rare in the U.K., but quite a lot of us use a dish - unfortunately this means funding Rupert Murdoch's evil empire, but it does mean B.B.C. News24 and B.B.C. Parliament, along with some funny comedy channels (there's an hilarious one called the 'Fox News Channel' - a great spoof of dumb freepers, pure genius).

[Kellanved]

13. Digital terrestrial TV

DVB-T.


And cable, but I usually use the DVB-T - it is very easy to use the PC as TiVo for it.

[mrbill]

14. extended basic cable with wires.

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