Do you have cable television (or some equivalent service)?

yes, i have the basic package. most of the channels are terrible, but it's nice to have even if it's one of those luxuries i can live without.

Thats ok we got tv in silesia too, all kinds of packages

Yes, but only the most basic package available - does that mean like all the major networks but no premium at all?

the version i have is e.g. the food network but not the cooking channel (which is in the higher rung of channel choices)

I guess it would be whatever the lowest level package your provider offers is. I would think it probably would normally include stuff like Bravo, ESPN, Discovery, the news channels, MTV? IDK because I fall into the "do not have" category.

I'm somewhere between the two 'no' answers. can't imagine ever getting cable again. only annoying when it comes to watching sports.

Yeah see we get NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and that's literally about it. I think we also get a couple local access stuff and PBS but no Bravo, ESPN, Discovery, Cooking Channel or anything.

dumped it bcz I needed the $70 a month and didn't watch much. I've since discovered hooking up an antenna and a converter box hardly gets me jackshit, but I'm still not going back til I get a cheaper apartment.

We do have both Netflix Instant and Hulu +. I love TV so it's not some anti-tv sorta thing.

stopped getting cable several months ago; i had the cheapest package but it still was nowhere near worth it.

i can pretty much find everything i want online, even if the quality is poorer/there is a delay

also thx to dell for giving me the online feed for the World Series!

Yeah see we get NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and that's literally about it. I think we also get a couple local access stuff and PBS but no Bravo, ESPN, Discovery, Cooking Channel or anything.

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Monday, November 14, 2011 3:25 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Wait what is this even cable at all? Like do you pay a monthly bill?

Yeah I started out in the snob camp, got used to not having it, dropped the snobbery but just felt like it wasn't worth paying for. Granted I don't exactly love having to depend on 'questionable' (in multiple senses) sports streams. Otherwise I'm fine watching shows later on netflix. I guess I'd like to be able to talk about the latest Curb every week with coworkers.

Wait what is this even cable at all? Like do you pay a monthly bill?

― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Monday, November 14, 2011 3:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Yep, it's the most basic package offered. Very very low add on to monthly internet bill.

Some ppl get cable exclusively for "broadcast" stuff bcz it's impossible to get it via antenna.

...despite all the BULLSHIT the guvmint told us when the digital changeover occurred.

Most basic package: CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, CW, plus ESPN, C-SPAN, horse racing, regional cable news, TBS. We really only have it for the internet.

I probably would pay like $10-20 a month for an ultra-basic package. As it stands, TWC's lowest price package is available for a $50/month "introductory" rate that only lasts a year or maybe even 6 mos iirc. Fuck that. My internet is already $35/mo and cable would be on top of that.

I have a basic package. We mostly only watch Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, but they get a lot of use. It's probably worth whatever percentage of our Verizon bill it is per month. Sometimes, if no one else is home, I get to watch COPS reruns or something.

Soon after moving into this house (25 years ago) we discovered that we were behind a mountain which blocked all broadcast tv signals. Cable was the only possible way to have reception. We have the most basic possible package, consisting mostly of the broadcast channels that everyone else could get for free, plus a handful of worthless add-ins.

no cable, antenna for regular channels + netflix on the ps3 + free hulu on the laptop + very occasional torrenting. i'm always excited to watch cable when i'm at my parents' house or at a motel and then quickly get pissed off because there's nothing to watch.

Things I have recently been pissed off about not being included in my basic FIOS package:

Hallmark Movie Channel
Rural Free Delivery TV

we've got the basic cable HD package -- so all the basic channels but none of the HBO, Showtime, Starz stuff. but we do get tons of HD things so it's not just the basic package

i've got the second-tier hd package. need it for sports tbh.

oh, we also have the dvr. the dvr has made it possible for me to cancel netflix.

i've never had it

(since i left home)

i used to torrent all the time. now i never torrent. i don't really feel much better about myself tho.

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basic. i need the distraction every once and a while.

I have cable, a slight bump above the smallest channel package available but the smallest one that would get me the combo with the fastest broadband speed. VOIP also included. Thought about going a la carte with the broadband + phone from the cable co. and switching the tv content back to DirecTV, but don't want to commit to that for two years.

Never bothered getting hooked up to any TV receiving at all when I moved to the US. Considered it but spent 3 weeks in a hotel with basic TV and didn't see a single thing worth watching apart from Showtime, plus can't get any sense out of Comcast re getting connected. So I use Netflix DVDs and internet to watch - and I watch quite a lot, just occasionally a bit behind other people.

didn't see a single thing worth watching apart from Showtime

why Showtime?

The only thing I'd watch on it would be sports. Everything else I torrent/watch on DVD

I don't know, I think that was the only non-basic channel they had? There was no HBO and I didn't know what any other channels were, and I like(d) Dexter so that was the only thing I remembered.

I guess we have a notch above the basic. I think it's 4 or 5 quid more a month than basic and you just get all the +1hr channels and a few extra channels like Cartoon Network 2. No movies or sports or anything. It's satellite but as much as I'd prefer to switch to cable cos presumably that doesn't cut out when it rains it's way more expensive to get the channels we actually watch.

mine is def @ the fuck yea level but is mostly to get nfln & mlb & tcm & then those packages/tiers come w/ a ton of other shit. oh yeah hbo too, mostly 4 boxing tbrr

We've got the fuck yeah satellite channel package (with sports and movies, everything else thrown in when you pay extra for those plus broadband), we can't get cable in our area and watch way too much telly.

lol "i steal it" isn't an option.

i havent paid for cable or satellite ever, but i did have free cable for a while in an appt in like the early-mid 90s.

i now know lots of people who don't have it, which is a change from 10 yrs ago.

i miss having cable but not enough to pay for it

i always think that if i did end up getting cable again itd be for sports but really what i miss the most is that lethargic, i dont feel like doing anything sitting on the couch watching friends reruns part of it. like if theres a show im into i can watch it n/p and you can (sorta) stream sports matches but the best part of having a killer cable package is watching like percy jackson and the olympians nursing a hangover on a sunday afternoon and just so lazy

It's so true. I can watch p much anything I want on the internet, but sometimes WANTING something is way too much agency--you have to make an active choice and then feel obligated to pay attention when what you really want is a soothing stream of things you don't have any control over basically.

yeah lamp otm

Have full package sky.

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