Cable/Satellite TV
 

How many of you subscribe to it ?
If so, what channels do you watch?

I've had it since it was in it's early days here, 1995 I think it was. The point of my asking is that my signal just went out and I go nuts when that happens, yet half the time I wonder why on earth I have it, I can't live without it but it angers me also :confused::confused::confused:

I've got Foxtel, all channels, yet only watch about a dozen of the 60 + of them :confused:

Am I weird or are others of ya the same ?

I share a house with a married couple, and we have two Sky boxes, although one's a Sky Plus one (means they can record stuff on it). I rarely watch TV to be honest, sometimes it's on in the background, and I'll tend to have it on when eating meals. They watch it all the time, especially the bloke, but he's partially disabled so it's difficult for him to do much else at home.

I couldn't watch that much TV, it would drive me bonkers. There is just so much utter shite out there. We subscribe to pretty much all the major channels - sport, educational (hah! you gotta be kidding calling it that when most of it is sensationalist claptrap), movies.

To be honest it's a waste of money for me to have it, but I guess they get their money's worth.

My Dad has just upgraded to SKY+HD but the package we had before carries on which includes the films and sky sports channels but not ESPN-he had Setanta once but then they went belly-up two years ago. A lot of the channels are a waste of time but I personally watch DAVE a lot and G.O.L.D when they show old comedy shows like 'The Young Ones' , 'Blackadder' and 'Game On'-sport some football, mostly Liverpool games and some England games-Sky Premiere when they have films worth recording to watch another time(SKY+ allows you to record series so once it's set up it will record the same day, same time etc and you can go back and forth like a video recorder). The biggest plus of SKY+ is being able to pause live television-when the phone goes or someone turns up, and then you can catch up by rewinding and watching-clever stuff.

I have DirecTV and have over 100 channels but I only watch maybe 20 of them on a regular basis. And about the only things I watch from broadcast TV is football and Family Guy.

I have Sky and I also subscribe to Premier sports so I can watch the NASCAR sprint cup races without having to find a kind American streaming it (still have to do that for the Nationwide and trucks as no-one broadcasts them in the UK)

The signal only goes out in heavy rain I find. I do watch it quite a bit, also enjoy the cricket and speedway plus a variety of other motor racing.

We have a Sky+ box,I mainly watch Sky 1and 2 for The Simpsons and Futurama,Occasionally a movie on one of the movie channels,Some of the documentary channels and odd things that crop on the minor channels.I also watch FX for Family Guy and The Walking Dead. My wife watches US crime dramas on Living, Alibi and Five US.

I remember when I 1st got satellite TV, I took long service leave and watched the TV for 3 weeks straight, only left the house to buy food, snacks, beer and smokes which were kind of essential for the new found addiction.

After a while, I became selective of what I watch, back then we only had 17 channels, but now with Christ knows how many, I'm down to these channels

The History Channel
National Geographic
Discovery Channel
The Comedy Channel
Fox News
BBC World
Sky News
TV1........which is old classic TV shows
CNN
BBC Knowledge
The Weather Channel

And apart from the odd movie and sporting event, the rest of the stuff is useless

Oh, dont mind the music channels in the background once in a while, Music Max and Country Music

I pity the fool (yeah I was actually doing the Mr T voice then) that pays for SkyTV now. Channels full of shite repeats etc etc, for £45 per month.

Digital is bad enough, but Sky is a joke now.

I actually have sky tv on my system, and I have it mainly for the sport. I like to watch the speedway, bike racing, rugby league, union big games and the football, especially the super sunday derbies and so forth.
I prefer to watch the news because it is uninterrupted on bbc. I like some of the music channels, but they've gone down the pan lately. And some of the documentary channels put out a decent program from time to time.
The other channels are just full of adverts and repeats with only one decent program per week on sky one worth watching. (Spartacus, blood and sand and gods of the arena.) The majority of it is garbage, and it should be renamed repeat tv.
However, I hope that when the second round of switch off takes place, I don't get break up on my screen which, as I've had my system checked, is apparently down to this weather and the heavy thunderstorms. While I understand it can have an effect on a transmission, especially a live one, I also become extemely annoyed when I lose the picture temporararily.
I don't like having to ring sky up as they usually tell me there is nothing they can do and the signal is ok. So I start to rant and tell them I'm paying for something I can't even look at sometimes.
I remember staying at a friends house, he lived in the Hague in Holland. And he didn't get sky, but all the channels he could get on his satellite was what people normally got in that part of the world. It was a mix of Dutch, German and English (bbc) channels. I asked him if he paid for any of these channels, he said no. I asked him do you pay a licence of any kind? He said no. That just about puts everything into perspective over here.

I have cable tv for which I pay about $90.00 per month. I have what they call an "extended" package which gives me the basic cable, a group of additional channels, and the ability to buy a "sports" package (which I do). The basic package gives me my local stations without having to use an antenna along with the standard channels (ESPN, Disney, TNT, TBS, etc,...). the extended package gives me the Military Channel, BBC News, CNN International, and quite a few others. The sports package gives me about a dozen sports channels, mostly ESPN based, along with Fox Soccer Channel, and GolTV. The last two get quite a bit of viewing along with the basic ESPN and ESPN2 which come with basic cable.

I have 200 or so channels (I haven't counted them) but watch very few of them. the main reason I have them is because I have no other choice. I don't watch MTV, VH1, Disney, Nick, and a host of others. In the mornings and before I go to bed at night I watch my local news. Mainly for traffic, weather, and such. At other times I will usually catch CNN International or BBC News. Other than this and football matchs, I watch about 10 hours a week unless there is something special running.

One good thing my cable does offer me is bunch of music channels. These aren't video music channels, but just CD quality music being broadcast over the cable. I can pick from a lot of different music and I can route it through my stereo for good quality sound. I tend to have this on whenever I am cooking, reading, or working at home.