4 more days and no TV!!!

Besides doing her regular house wifie duties, my wife works puzzles, reads rag magazines, and plays her mechanical yahtzi. If she want s real entertainment she watches me complain when this computer goes haywire!That 's often!:banghead3:

 

Time for me to get a new one. Unfortunately. Procrastinating.

 

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My wife was ill also a long time back...sadly I can relate to your post

 

Got myself hooked up with a streaming Netflix account in February and have not touched regular cable TV since. Just about everything I could ever want to watch and NO FREAKIN' COMMERCIALS!!!!!! I get my news from the Internet and I don't give a damn about sports. Cable TV has absolutely nothing to offer anymore.

 

What's really crazy about this shift to Digital is that not one North American company built the converters or digital TVs. Why would our governments back such an economic perk to Asia? And in the USA, they even subsidized the switch over! Just no sense to it.

Anyway 2 more days, after today, and the TV affliction is over!

I'll miss the public French channel. It was almost Ad-free, and lots of culture and comedy.

We turned it on for about 2 hours, during supper, to see the weather maps and latest Murders in our city. We're Number One, again! So far... Still have 3 months to lose to the Alberta tarsands Oil Patch capital, Edmonton. Here's hoping, but if we are Number Two, this year, we'll try harder next year. Seems we take turns on violent crime, with Edmonton. It is our turn this year, but the odds are that our poverty crimes will win over the rich and gang crimes in Edmonton.

Windsor, Ontario, across from Detroit, has ZERO murders so far this year. It used to be in the running for Number 3. Canadian Idol taught us a lot.

 

I signed up with Netflix last month and watch it through my Wii (sounds rude when I say that out loud). I figure I've got another month or so before I exhaust their offerings. Netflix offers a lot less in Canada than it does in the US. Most of what's in their library is stuff that got rejected from the WalMart $5.00 bin. Their agreement with Starz is about to come to an end which will reduce their library even further. They've got a fair way to go before it becomes a viable service for us Canadians.

 

-----------Can you say that on here?

 

Same here. I only have Dish in my living room and master bedroom. I have antennas on the rest of my TV's and converter boxes. I can only get signal...period on one. That's only if I set the antenna on top of the metal ductwork for the heater!

 

I work for a cable company and hear people say they have netflix so don't need cable all the time. As an employee with all the channels for free!! and a Netflix subscriber, i say while i don't watch everything on the cable because there is a lot of garbage, Netflix isn't the be all end all either. As someone previously mentioned, their streaming content is thin and will get even thinner with the loss of starz, sony, and disney agreements. And the price went up as well. As a customer you just have to find that middle ground. I hear people complain about their bill yet they have 10 tv's connected. What do you expect!?

 

Yeah, mo....the only Netflix program I want is the $8 DVD deal. I love movies, of course, and I have heard about the lack of content with the streaming program. And you are right...the price went up and the subscribers went bonkers. The stock plunged because of people bailing and they were deluged with irate mail.