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I could not agree more. I have a FIOS and a huge HDTV, in the living room and I end up watching one TV show reguarlly and a few movies. The last time I spen

I could not agree more. I have a FIOS and a huge HDTV, in the living room and I end up watching one TV show reguarlly and a few movies. The last time I spent a significant amount of time in front of the TV was the Olympics whose coverage was so bad I ended up fast forwarding though most of it. The only advantage of cable is they live HDTV programming is less compressed than most streaming options. Yet, for some reason even their Video on Demand option is more compressed than live tv even though they have a full fiber network. As to programming, I used to watch a fair amount of edutainment like NOVA but even that has been dumbed down to meaningless drivel. I can still get into a good nature show in HDTV, but mostly they are just Steve Erwin style psudo reality TV designed to maximize the number of teeth shown per minute. PS: If you have not seen it "How It’s Made" is still fairly interesting.

pasbesoin 15y ago
As for the Olympics, on my basic cable television service (held due to Comcast pricing issues), the one stream of broadcasting that was not utter crap was one of the secondaries that was on... CNBC or something like that. They showed particularly women's curling in pretty much complete broadcasts, except for commercials. I'm neither a sports fan nor a curling aficionado (or, I wasn't), but I quite enjoyed watching those games and following the Canadian women's team on their way to victory. People are bailing on cable television (and new television in general) because the programming is utter crap. And then the companies sit on the good, if older, stuff and move it ever further up in the premium levels. I'd actually watch "Star Trek: The Next Generation", but it's been moved to price levels I won't pay for. The channel perennially re-running "West Wing" was recently bumped from my service (despite Comcast's supposed agreement to hold the status quo until 2013). Now, "The Next Generation" is on Netflix. So, screw you, cable TV. (Just wish I had a better choice for my Internet connectivity.)

pasbesoin 15y ago

As for the Olympics, on my basic cable television service (held due to Comcast pricing issues), the one stream of broadcasting that was not utter crap was one of the secondaries that was on... CNBC or something like that. They showed particularly women's curling in pretty much complete broadcasts, except for commercials. I'm neither a sports fan nor a curling aficionado (or, I wasn't), but I quite enjoyed watching those games and following the Canadian women's team on their way to victory. People are bailing on cable television (and new television in general) because the programming is utter crap. And then the companies sit on the good, if older, stuff and move it ever further up in the premium levels. I'd actually watch "Star Trek: The Next Generation", but it's been moved to price levels I won't pay for. The channel perennially re-running "West Wing" was recently bumped from my service (despite Comcast's supposed agreement to hold the status quo until 2013). Now, "The Next Generation" is on Netflix. So, screw you, cable TV. (Just wish I had a better choice for my Internet connectivity.)