Your TV provider?

[Mammoth]

I have Shaw, god it's sickening. All the good channels aren't on my plan. I get 2-22, skips to about 49, skips again to somwhere like 82 and goes to 86.

 

[it5five]

Cox Communications.

 

[After G]

Comcast. Here basic cable tv is $12.42 and the bundle discount with HSI is $14. Free cable!

 

[tedrjr03]

Cox

 

[kretzy]

Wow, the TV system seems much more complicated there in the US. We have 5 free to air channels (some also have secondary channels thanks to digital broadcasting) which is what most people here watch. Not very many people have cable and if they do it's usually from a provider called Foxtel.

 

[bousozoku]

Wow, the TV system seems much more complicated there in the US. We have 5 free to air channels (some also have secondary channels thanks to digital broadcasting) which is what most people here watch. Not very many people have cable and if they do it's usually from a provider called Foxtel.

Sure is. In Central Floriduh, we have 5 regular local channels broadcasting in English, at least 2 local channels broadcasting in Spanish, 4 religious channels, plus 2 public broadcasting service channels.

In most controlled neighbourhoods here, we're not allowed to have aerials/antennas to receive regular off-the-air broadcasts. We're allowed cable t.v., which is usually piped into every home by default or 18 inch satellite dishes like DirecTV.

 

[nbs2]

I'm with you. I love tv, but I wouldn't pay for it unless I was living in the middle of nowhere and only got one channel.

What about if it was cheaper for you to get cable and internet than just internet alone ($62 < $64)

 

[rickvanr]

I have Cogeco, so I couldn't vote

 

[Queso]

In London I have both Freeview (digital broadcast, 20-odd free channels) and Homechoice (comes down my DSL line, 60-odd channels + video on demand). In Barcelona I have a basic Sky package via satellite. And the truly funny thing; there's rarely anything worth watching on any of them.

Can't vote though, since the poll is racist towards everyone outside of the USA

 

[Lyle]

The ABC sub-channel is just live doppler which is actaully just a mirror feed of a windows desktop. On friday nights you can see them running Norton AntiVirus.

One day when I was sick, and stayed home from work, I was flipping through the channels when I stopped on one of the public access channels. This is a channel that just runs a PowerPoint slide show in a loop, with slides advertising upcoming local events, city job postings, and other information of interest to the citizens of Madison. Someone was in the process of adding some new slides and correcting some of the older slides, but they hadn't bothered to do the work offline -- we were seeing them make the changes "live". It was mesmerizing.

P.S. Knology is my cable provider.

 

[Tanglewood]

Was Cox but moved to the other side of town about a year ago and now I'm on Time Warner. The basketball arena at my university is named Cox Arena which lead to this April First article in the student newspaper in 2004.

 

[adamb100]

Time Warner, Digital Cable w/ HD DVR and RR, around $150 per mo.

 

[sb58]

why doesn't this poll just have an "other" option? trying to get all the T.V. providers onto one poll isn't really possible, at least when this forum has people from all over.

 

[KingYaba]

TimeWarner. Their internet (from personal tests) seems to have improved over Comcast. So the switch hasn't bothered me.

 

[sunfast]

Good old free to air (sort of...) british analogue TV! But I'm getting my DTT eyeTV stick any day now.

 

[Aperture]

Adelphia Digital Enhanced Cable w/ DVR

 

[Reaver]

directv here 7 years running

 

[beatsme]

Is it Cable or Satelite, What Brand? I use Bell ExpressVu. Do you like it or not?

Adelphia...it blows.

 

[iSaint]

CableOne, not listed. ISP as well.

 

[Kingsly]

DirecTV. The service and selection is great... but I have to cancel and re-sign a contract if I want 4 rooms and a tivo for the same price Im paying now (2 rooms, no tivo/HD)

 

[steamboat26]

Comcast at my mom's (HUGE ripoff)

Fios TV at my dad's ($20 less than comcast, 500 more channels)

 

[jdechko]

We just had to cancel DishNetwork today. We're moving into an apartment. Aside from the technical impossibilities of putting a dish in (big tree in the way) the complex wants us to pay an additional $200 deposit plus get insurance for the dish. So we're planning on going with Comcast cable + DVR/HD while we're at the apartment. I'd really like to go back to Dish though, when we land in a house of our own.

BTW, how is Comcast HD/DVR for those who have it? Is it pretty good?

 

[zflauaus]

Don't you guys get Sky in the States? I thought they were international... Oh well, thats what I've got, 600 channels of bliss!

Cheers

600 channels? What's the cost of that? (In american dollars?)

We have DirecTV, Total Choice Plus, $55 per month with additional room. Ugh... and RCA receivers suck.

 

[xPismo]

OTA.

Family is cheap, we don't pay fer naw tele.

(really, the apartment were in charges bank for cable)

PBS is where its at anyway.