[mythtv-users] US Pay-TV loses subscribers for the first time ever

[Brian Wood]

On Monday, August 23, 2010 02:14:28 pm Ben Kamen wrote:
> On 8/23/2010 3:08 PM, mike at grounded.net wrote:
> > Broadcasters have got us by the nuts, yet we keep on happily paying and
> > not complaining enough about the ridiculous amounts of commercial vs
> > programming.
> 
> Well, let's be specific, OTA broadcasts are free. So there's no crushing
> sounds of private parts there...

IF you live in an area with decent reception of several channels, and have an antenna system that can deal with it.

In my market here I have precisely ONE OTA channel available, and I don't watch CBS much, so it's pretty much useless.

We used to be able to get the Denver stations with a good antenna, but that went bye-bye with the move to digital. My 
"improved" situation went from 7 or 8 channels to 1. Thank-You US Government.

> 
> Otherwise, if you *gotta gotta gotta* have cable/satellite, then yea...
> they see that sucker coming. ;)
> 
> Personally, I could never understand Satellite radio (XM/Sirius) when I
> have an MP3 player for my car with 60GB of disk space and an FM Tuner.
> 

Paying $12/month for radio always seemed crazy to me as well. They don't exactly give away the gear to receive it either.

Other than a few Howard Stern fanatics I don't see why anybody pays for that.