After spending 6 days on the couch over New Year with the worst flu ever I walked away convinced of two things; I need to exercise more, and Comcast (the cable lineup in general) sucks ass. The old chestnut of there being 200 channels and nothing on has now become there are 500+ channels and there is nothing on. To cap it off I got a bill in the mail for 2 months of service that was about $240, and yet I signed up for some kind of promotional $89 per month promo.
Anyway, I’m done, i’m canceling my cable and i’m waiting to see if i’m going to by buying select TV shows over the internet via my xbox 360, from apple itunes to my “itv” box (we’ll see tomorrow in Steve’s Keynote), or just getting dvd’s (which I already do for lost). Anyway, the cable TV model of paying for 100’s of channels of dross has got to move to a more on-demand niche model where I can pay on a per show basis. I’ve already moved my netflix up to an 8 at a time service.
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Are you sure you want to miss the next episode of Sanford and Son on TV Land?
Good choice!!
Haha Kevin, thanks, i’m sure I’ll get over missing the sanford and son episode, which of course is an interpretation of an English comedy called Steptoe & Son, a show based upon two white “rag and bone” men in London. BTW good job on the netflix vs blockbuster numbers in your recent blog post.
good choice Karl! More excercising, less TV. I had been living most of my life happily without TV or with around 10 channels. One day I was ill-blessed with 250 channels, it took lot of time to zap through them but in fact there was nothing to watch. Soap, insignificance and idocracy. The result my TV viewing dropped drastically and I got back to 10 channels solution. It is defintely enough and I got more time – zapping doesn\’t take one hour anymore
That is not to say there isn’t some fear and trepidation involved here, I mean, television is a rich source of inspiration when thinking and talking about the media. TV commercials are something I actually feel guilty about skipping over sometimes, not because I feel I owe the TV anything, but I might be missing something worth talking about or denigrating. I mean, how will I be able to listen to American Copywriter anymore
Welcome to the club, I hope you and I make it to the 2nd annual Internet Service Provider Only day, which is July 4, 2007.
You’ll be amazed how many more things you get done now.
As for Comcast, I’ll be writing about that in a few days as I just changed ISPs.
Dude! You’re really going to miss Season Six of American Idol? At least buy Battlestar Galactica on iTV. Cheers!