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How many TV channels are you getting from cable/satellite?

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I get around 70 channels on Suddenlink's expanded basic cable. I don't watch more than a dozen channels and more often than not it seems like there's nothing on I want to watch anyways. I switched to DSL recently so I'm canceling my service this week. Suddenlink can stuff their $10 extra a month for cable internet w/o TV.
 
My wife and I get about 300 and watch 15. Largely because of this, we're canceling our DirecTV and going with HD OTA.
 
every channel Dishnet has to offer, wide open, including all PPVs

i don't know how many i watch. probably 10 or so excluding the NHL games
 
fios Extreme HD package (part of new triple play deal @ $94/mo.) which comes in at 400 channels + I have the center ice pkg... I only watch the center ice... my wife watches Style / Discovery / TLC and for 30 mins a night at dinner we watch NBC Nightly News as long as our kids aren't crying over it instead. Exciting lives we lead...

Anyway work pays $50/mo. for the internet portion so for $50/mo. I'm not changing a thing.
 
About 70 and I only watch 4 of them Discovery (almost 80% of the time when I pop the tv on), TLC, Adult Swim, HGC, all the rest I can care less about for what ever I may have missed on the regular channels I can watch in better quality, or HD off the internerd.
 
Originally posted by: SirChadwick
I probably watch 8-10 and I get around 500 channels through DirecTV.

I hate that they make you order these large packages just to get a few decent channels.

Honestly, I miss my old $29/mo cable. I'm paying around $80/mo now and it's worthless except for the hi-def.

I wish they'd let you pay $3 per channel that you actually want. I'd be paying around $30/month and would be happy w/ that.
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Ditto.
 
espn
espn2
travel
discovery
food
fox/cbs/nbc/abc for sports

that makes 9. + a few movie channels right now because im on premium-trial.
 
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: SirChadwick
I probably watch 8-10 and I get around 500 channels through DirecTV.

I hate that they make you order these large packages just to get a few decent channels.

Honestly, I miss my old $29/mo cable. I'm paying around $80/mo now and it's worthless except for the hi-def.

I wish they'd let you pay $3 per channel that you actually want. I'd be paying around $30/month and would be happy w/ that.
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Ditto.
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There are 5 channels (spike, speed, history, discovery, and comedy central) that I'd happily pay $3 for, the only problem is to get them I need to go to a package that will run me more than $50 more/month. I'd rather spend $50 on doing something else. While I miss the channels, I find it's easier to get to my goals when I'm saving $600/year on TV that I really didn't watch that much of.
 
Originally posted by: GrumpyMan
I look at cable TV much like I do having to buy a whole album to get just one song that I like, I don't like it and don't do it. And I imagine that eventually cable TV will have to go the route of music buying on the Internet, just rent what channel you need and nothing else. Whomever comes up with that plan will make a mint.
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I think it's already getting close to reality, with HTPC + Hulu/Netflix/whatever. It may take a generation or two of mainstream consumer set-top streaming devices to make this palatable for the masses. I assume cable TV will try to compete with more and more VOD, and most likely fail and get steamrolled by the interwebz somewhere down the line.

Good thing we all have uncapped internet connections, and those dirty cable operators aren't thinking about ways to screw us before we screw them and ditch their cable TV for good. Oh wait...
 
800-something counting the spanish, sports, premium, music, etc channels.

I can only think of 10 that I watch on a regular basis -- NBC, Fox, ABC, CW, Bravo, Comedy Central, Sci-fi, CNN, Fox News, and the Food Network.

edit: my big issue with the whole netflix, hulu, torrent idea is the lack of live TV... there are a lot of shows that I feel like I really "have" to watch live or close to it or spend the entire next day avoiding coworkers and the internet to remain spoiler-free.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
my big issue with the whole netflix, hulu, torrent idea is the lack of live TV... there are a lot of shows that I feel like I really "have" to watch live or close to it or spend the entire next day avoiding coworkers and the internet to remain spoiler-free.
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I agree with you there, but I can't think of any shows like that that aren't on network TV. I'm going to use an antenna for all the locals in HD and supplement that with Hulu, Netflix, etc. I'm following a few threads on various forums that detail all of the legal internet sources for TV. There's plenty of free or cheap entertainment out there, even if it might not include everything I'm used to watching. However, it's worth it enough to save almost $1000 per year on satellite.
 
Originally posted by: kalrith
Originally posted by: loki8481
my big issue with the whole netflix, hulu, torrent idea is the lack of live TV... there are a lot of shows that I feel like I really "have" to watch live or close to it or spend the entire next day avoiding coworkers and the internet to remain spoiler-free.
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I agree with you there, but I can't think of any shows like that that aren't on network TV. I'm going to use an antenna for all the locals in HD and supplement that with Hulu, Netflix, etc. I'm following a few threads on various forums that detail all of the legal internet sources for TV. There's plenty of free or cheap entertainment out there, even if it might not include everything I'm used to watching. However, it's worth it enough to save almost $1000 per year on satellite.
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I've seen the thread on avsforum, link to others?
 
Originally posted by: eelw
FTA satellite. So just over 2000 channels. But really only watch like 10 of those channels regularly.
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I've heard there isn't much watching via Free-to-Air. What "worthwhile" stations do you get? I currently use OTA (with the new Echostar DVR) and can't receive CBS and NBC, and was considering trying FTA if they be received that way.
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: kalrith
Originally posted by: loki8481
my big issue with the whole netflix, hulu, torrent idea is the lack of live TV... there are a lot of shows that I feel like I really "have" to watch live or close to it or spend the entire next day avoiding coworkers and the internet to remain spoiler-free.
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I agree with you there, but I can't think of any shows like that that aren't on network TV. I'm going to use an antenna for all the locals in HD and supplement that with Hulu, Netflix, etc. I'm following a few threads on various forums that detail all of the legal internet sources for TV. There's plenty of free or cheap entertainment out there, even if it might not include everything I'm used to watching. However, it's worth it enough to save almost $1000 per year on satellite.
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I've seen the thread on avsforum, link to others?
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