Cable and SAT TV

[DaveM]

I paid my SAT TV today and I see the prices has gone up again. Now I just don't know I feel we seem to be paying a bit much for what we get out. So what do you get for your $ on Cable and SAT TV

I paid around

600.00 ZAR = 89.5260 USD
600.00 ZAR = 85.8111 CAD
600.00 ZAR = 55.0179 GBP
600.00 ZAR = 86.1059 AUD

 

[avion]

57 channels and nothing on.

I pay 612.00 ZA iirc.

 

[DaveM]

Ah yes that was the amount R612.00 that I paid today.

 

[Rocky]

Mine is just over $100.00 a month for HD cable and two TV's.
I think it's fair value for the money - especially in the winter when I'm home and inside so much.
I/we rarely go to movies so it's our main source of entertainment.
We get a fair bit of British and Australian programming which I enjoy, along with all the major news, commercial and entertainment US channels.
I rarely watch TV during the day, but have some favourite prime time shows I try not to miss.

 

[DaveM]

I must actually check tonight how many channels I actually watch. Here is the list of all our channels DSTV Channels

 

[Rocky]

That's the problem - too many channels and you can't watch all of them.
I subscribe to 70 channels and many are of no interest to me (part of a package), but I created a daily TV guide for the ones I watch. There is often a lot of overlap so I record anything I want to watch later.
If I subscribed to everythging available I would have a couple of hundred I suppose.
But I don't want my life to revolve around a TV set.

 

[DaveM]

We have a lot but at time you can find nothing to watch only repeats

 

[Rocky]

We have a lot but at time you can find nothing to watch only repeats

Yes, that's the way it is here too.
But I love to read and have other interests to keep me amused.

 

[dazco]

I'm only getting cable because the person from whom i rented this back house stipulated that whoever moves in has to share expenses on a cable and internet package. Otherwise i'd be using fee dial up internet and watching air TV. Before i moved in here i dumped my cable at my last residence because it kept going up and the programming was junk. I started watching air TV, which is 9 channels and as bad as that is, it wasn't much worse than cables 100's. Just way too much money for what you get. Used to be air TV was fine and when pay TV arrived i figured what the heck, i don't need it but i suppose it's good for whoever does. It never occurred to me that it would eventually destroy air TV's quality. used to be movies on air TV and now there's none. So now you almost need to pay to get any movies at all. I would still watch air instead if the person i'm renting from allowed me to stop paying my share. when i did it last time i soon realized it wasn't really any worse since most of the cable programming is either garbage or the shows are repeated so much that if you watch for a few months you've seen it all and won't see anything new for a year anyways.And what kills me is you're paying for it and yet they still have commercials ! It's really a scam as far as i'm concerned.Another case of the customers not voting right with thier wallets. If more people did what i did and WOULD do again if i weren't forced to buy cable, they'd w/o a doubt drop thier prices way way down. Oh, and what kills me is that they are always having technical difficulties and i lose my picture a lot, plus the cable box is worthless, and i won't even go into that long rant. Yet you call to complain and no matter how nice you are about it the operators alway get angry with you just for assuming they did anything thats not perfect. Yep, a real scam alright. hate em...:y14:

 

[DaveM]

Well on top of paying for the SAT TV we also have to pay a TV licence as well and I have no idea how much that is So if you go with our so called free TV we have I think 4 channels and now you are really getting into rubbish

 

[CarlS]

A TV license? That would not go over well here. Our government keep trying to figure out ways to tax the interent; but so far, they have not been stupid enough to try. I pay $129.00 USD per month. this includes -

1. HD SAT TV with three TV's, 1 box to control two TV's and a second box with DVR to control the third TV. We get about 120 channels including the local air channels. We have the Encore package; but we do not have HBO and Cinemax. Dad is into sports; so we have some extra sports channels.

2. ADSL @ 3.0 Mbps

3. Telephone service

 

[DaveM]

Yeah well you see we just pay for the SAT TV then we pay for
TV Licence
ADSL LIne additional to your charge on the telephone line, ADSL lightning speeds of up to 1 meg supposed to be a 10 meg connection and it is to the exchange but from then on pot luck
ADSL ISP package

So I must pay around $400 for all of that

 

[Dilligaf]

Who recalls the Bruce Springsteen song "57 channels and nothing on" ? Now it is 957 channels and nothing on.
I pay $59 for Direct TV HD+ with a DVR and $33 for DSL.
Prices on everything have shot way up, food is crazy high, just paid $4.19 for Super Unleaded......

 

[DaveM]

The cost of living sure is shooting way up

 

[Rocky]

You said it!!!
Gas is $1.33 a litre here for regular:y8:

 

[CarlS]

Yes, the cost of living is going up; but our government says it is not. Thus we on military retirement did not get a cost of living raise nor did those receiving Social Security. However, Congress gave itself a raise.

 

[shanered6]

yep every time i fill the bike up my eyes water :y8: at £1.40 a litre the sat tv is £ 60 a month and the tv licence is £ 12 a month.

 

[dazco]

I'm figuring i need to invest in a shotgun so when i run out of money i can just check out for good. Thats about what it's come to trying to survive. Pretty soon you'll not only be unavble to pay for TV or any entertainment, but you'll have to choose between gas and food, and gas must win because w/o it you can't get to work. But ah ha...the catch 22....what good is working if theres no money left for food. Back to the shotgun idea. It truly is a whole different world then the on I grew up in where TV was free and anyone could afford to buy a house. And now the word retirement is just another word for death...sigh.....

 

[shanered6]

retirement whats that ! im only 42 but i think ill spend my last day in work ,just to pay for the fuel

 

[DaveM]

Well with our last run of the company giving out packages it made me think very hard on this retirement issue and how can a person get by after a few years the way things are now going