I don't have time to fill this in yet. But just wanted to mark it as something that I really need to rant about.
I also hate the $3/month rental on the stupid remote.
OK, so I figured I'd better fill this one in.
My beef here is that I found out that more than half my cable bill goes to paying for the Sports channels.
Now, there has to be at least 20 of them. And I only watch one, occasionally, the Yankee network (YES). And I only watch it because they no longer show games on broadcast TV, and my wife gets into the games once in a while (so I watch along).
Since Sports networks are so much, why aren't they in a separate package, like the movie channels. That way, I can get cable without having to fund all the sports nuts.
I am sure all the sports nuts are saying, "well then, why do we have to pay for all the non-sports channels, like History and SciFi.", and they would be right.
What we have in the cable TV world is socialism!
Instead of just paying for the channels I want, I have to pay for all the channels. So I have to help fund the sports channels, which cost too much for just the sports nuts to support. So the cable company spreads the costs across everyone who wants cable.
I am looking forward to the day when the kids know how to find everything they want to watch on the internet. Then I can just drop the cable TV. I find that there is rarely anything I really want to watch on anyway, despite the 200 channels. Especially since I can watch Stewart and Cobert (the only things worth watching) online.
Can't say as I blame you!
ReplyDeleteNow about Stewart and Cobert. That's another story. Guess I'm into movies.
from the tender of the pear orchard