RonFrank:Yeah, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, were total trash. Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the Food Network, DIY, and PBS all just show Trash. I mean, who wants to watch some of the worlds best chefs teach cooking, or the the worlds best videographers and zoologists document animal behavior. And all those boring facts about science, space, marine biology, technology, and just about any other subject.
I guess I don't know about "blue planet" or "planet earth" but the Discovery Channel and the History channel have certainly gone pretty trashy from what I've seen. the food netwerk, I don't have much interest in watching a someone cook but to each their own.
Those points aside and assuming my local cable provider even made those programs availavble, what percentage of the total programming and the total bill is represented by them. I didn't drop the service because there was NEVER enything I wanted to watch. I dropped it because the total package wasn't worth the cost to me.
Of course another annoying thing is the advancement of technology. Don't you hate it when they come up with a way so that one can just skip through the commercials?
Actually, if you have been paying attention, the industry recognizes those technologies as a problem and they are working pretty hard on finding a way to stop you from skipping past the commercials.
Whatever filters you have in place are working well as you have rationalized behavior with supporting facts that do not exist? Sure there is a lot of trash on TV, and there is a lot of advertising. But there is a lot of solid content, and ways to avoid the adds. It's just a question of how one wants to gain information. You think the net is any different?
I beg to differ. Give me a call at 2 AM and let me know what your programming choices are and what it's costing you.
No, the net is no different except in regards to the number of choices vs the cost. This isn't just about gaining information. It's about entertainment and when the cost vs content interferes with the intertainment/informative value, I know where the off button is.
The net is actually a great example. I've stopped using my email because the spam has become unmanageable. Goofy sales stuff is screwing so much of it up from the results of search engines to the trouble and costs to keep spyware in check.
For the cost, I still find the internet to be orders of magnitude more useful than television (a broken toe is more useful than TV) but if current trends continue, I can definately see the day coming when I will no longer be willing to pay for it.
NewsFlash. If you pay for a subscription on SB, the adds can be turned off.
To be honest, I think I have to give the approach some thought and maybe ask some questions before I comment much on it. I do, of course, understand that providing this site involves work and cost that needs to be offset somehow.