08-12-2012, 04:33 AM | #16 | |
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About the only things I watch currently on TV are the shows broadcast on the "Antenna TV" network after midnight: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Burns and Allen Show, and The Jack Benny Show. Guess I'm showing my age! The money I save from no longer having a cable bill is being used to bring retirement closer. |
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08-12-2012, 08:02 AM | #17 | |
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Youg adults at the age of my kids over here do not listen to television. They're also very difficult to deal with since they escape programming. Good on them ,I say! |
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08-12-2012, 08:30 AM | #18 |
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I live in the Philippines now, and things here are a bit different... Two years ago, I paid a one time bribe of $20 to the cable man who came to disconnect the service of the previous tenant when I moved in, and now I have about 80 channels, including some sport, movies, documentaries and cartoons for the kids, plus local channels. It's analog though, so quality is not terrific but I guess I can't complain for less than $1 a month
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08-12-2012, 08:57 AM | #19 |
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Nothing, I don't own a TV.
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08-12-2012, 04:37 PM | #20 |
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Not sure what I'm paying here, except that it's way too much. (It's all intertwined with Internet services, including a business class Internet connection.)
I do buy Netflix (online only), and that's the USA's Netflix. (HideMyAss.com is your friend.) I watch lots of stuff on broadcast/cable TV, all of it managed by and recorded on TiVo. And then I supplement that with Amazon and Netflix on the Multimedia PC to get HD of those things I care about. Also log on to BBC sources (again, HMA's VPN is my solution there.) |
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08-12-2012, 08:53 PM | #21 | |
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08-13-2012, 02:41 AM | #22 |
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Cable offerings has always seemed kind of strange to me. It would be like saying; "Yes, you can get the Hartford Courant, but only if you also take the New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Readers Digest and Hustler".
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08-13-2012, 03:45 AM | #23 | |
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Here, in the Netherlands, you pay a fixed price (I think it's between €16 and €17 per month) to watch cable TV. This includes the three Dutch channels, the 2 Belgian ones, some German, French, BBC, and I believe at least Discovery Channel. (25 analog, 60 digital of which 14 are HD) We dropped the fees like the UK still has. So, if you don't have cable (but only that antenna), you won't pay a thing.
We have an extended package though, so we pay an extra €13 a month. This means we have the whole list, except those that must be paid for per month (such as HBO). Quote:
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They'd also make you take the National Enquirer, the Weekly World News, and some obscure magazine like Sheepherder's Quarterly.
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08-13-2012, 06:02 AM | #25 |
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In Switzerland there are two related fees.
One is the fee everyone who has to pay who owns a device that could _potentially_ receive radio or TV broadcasts. It's paid to the Swiss Federal Communication Office (German: BAKOM; (BAKOM). So even if you don't want their programs or listen to their radio, if you own a TV, you will have to pay. And it isn't cheap. Radio is ~ 170 USD / yr and TV is ~ 300 USD / yr. For cable services to receive private TV stations, I pay a relative modest ~ 10 USD / month. Last edited by Alexander Turcic; 08-13-2012 at 06:18 AM. |
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The reason I pay so much is for specialized channels. NatGeo, Discovery, Know, etc. in Québec the major players in television distribution assume that you will listen to tv in one language only. You pay for French and if you want some English channels you will pay for a special bilingual package. Screwing made easy, I say! I could listen to some programmation over Internet but then I'd rapidly blow the limits covered by my contract and be stuck with surcharges. |
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08-13-2012, 03:50 PM | #29 |
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I gave up tv years ago. I don't think I've even turned on my tv this year. The only show worth watching is "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, and I'm to cheap to pay $50/month to watch 16 1/2 hour episodes of one show. Especially when it's available on the internet for free.
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The BBC licence fee is indeed a per-household fee, not a per-person fee. |
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