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I've lived without cable and satellite on many occasions throughout my life. To be honest, once you get used to the local channels, and watching more movies on disc, you really don't miss it all that much. Cableite is pretty much 999 channels of nothing. Granted, there are some shows and channels I like - "Man Vs. Food", "Mythbusters", MSNBC, CNN, etc. - but do I really need it? I think not. I've lived without it before and I can't say it ever made my life any happier by having it. If anything, more TV lazy. Besides, if I really want to catch up on certain shows, you can always find places to watch them on the internet - if it's really all that important to you.
In my opinion, I'd be patting Dish on the back for standing up to the greed machine known as Disney. I hated their stupid Harry Potter marathons on ABCFamily HD, but then they'd show the SD versions of the movies . . . on the channel that is supposed to be showing the Hi-def versions no less! Plus, Disney still has the arrogance to sell all their discs (hi-def or SD) at least 1/3 more than any other studio releases. Hell, it took a long time for the Toy Story movies to go under $20, used on Amazon. Personally, I would praise what Dish has done.
The Cableite rip off doesn't stop there: All the premium movie channels you might like (HBO, Showtime, etc.) play the same 100 films the entire year, over-and-over! How many times do these idiots think I need to see "Point Break" or "Independence Day"? Other networks are guilty of the same boring routine, too, like TNT, TBS, FX, A&E, etc. For example, take how TBS constantly plays Seinfeld reruns - it would cost you less money to simply purchases the seasons on disc rather than paying the monthly Cableite bill for an entire year, or two year contract. Plus, you could watch which episodes you like the best and not the Ted Turner choices.
[Post edited by Tim Raynor on Jul 26, 2010 - CDT 12:19 PM]
The Cooking Channel used to be FLTV or Fine Living TV. Same company as Food Network, with a somewhat different focus. That changed over the beginning of June, as I recall.
DIY has been on Dish for a while, but only recently got an HD channel, as I recall.
MTV has always been on Dish...
Sure you didn't change your guide setting to a different grouping? With the program guide, you can view "all channels" - everything your receiver can "see", whether you are authorized to view it or not; "all sub" - all channels you are subscribed to; "all HD" - all HD channels, again, whether you are authorized to view them or not; and you can set up 3 or 4 personal "favorites" lists so that you never see the channels you don't get or want to see.
