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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've never had Pay TV. "Freeview" (digital terrestrial broadcast TV) here in the UK gives you 90-odd TV and radio stations, which is quite enough for me. Pay TV is great if you're really into sport or films, but I'm not.
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Freeview is what they are calling it here (in Oz) too. We only have Freeview, but take advantage of the Tivo to watch the programs we want to watch when we want to watch them. It's a rare thing for us to watch "live" TV, and with the increasing number of "free-to-air" digital channels we're recording old repeats that we like to rewatch.
We used to have Foxtel Pay TV, with the IQ box (DVR). It was great, but we found that we were forever catching up on TV, and thus forever sitting down and watching it for hours on end. That was in Sydney, and once we moved to Queensland we wanted to get out of that habit as the point of moving here was to find more outside of the house and the office to occupy ourselves with. So, we didn't get Pay TV, and we've found that the Tivo works for what and when we do want to watch (also, I get to record those shows that The Loved One isn't interested in, and vice versa).
We liked Foxtel, with the IQ box. I liked the arts and documentary channels, and The Loved One liked the comedies and lifestyle, and we both liked some selective sports (e.g. snow sports, WRC and some selected motor racing), and found there was a never-ending supply of stuff to watch. Free-to-air couldn't match that at the time. Now though, without Foxtel...well, it's rare we don't have something to watch, and it's getting better.
Outside is nice too.
Cheers,
Marc