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[Crankin]

Funny, I don't watch TV that much (except the news), but not having what I want bothered me.

[Helene2013]

If it was only for me, I don't think I'd even own a tv. But hubby is a tv maniac. Never big enough and not enough channels. Deuh! Not that he watches a lot but he likes to have his options!

Used to have satellite and it was a nightmare. Snow: no tv; storm: no tv. We were back to cable with the zillions channels. I have to cut down on the costs or the budget would bust.

The other day I made him realize with all the media we have (cable, internet, iphones, etc) we were spending near $3000 (after taxes!) on stuff like this. Taking monthly, nothing there. But when you start to look at annual expenses, I flip! Luckily we can afford it but it is a LOT of money to watch tv and play on internet.

But I say it is better this then smoking and drinking (at least drinking too much). And as long as our chores are done, I have no issue.

I have to say that in Canada (at least for Quebec) we pay a lot for everything. Our packages are so much more expensive than anything we could get in the USA. I guess it is the price to pay for being smaller and not as many suppliers.

Personnally, I get all I need from internet. Would be better if we could catch some tv shows, etc that are blocked to Canada (from USA) but hey! Nothing I can do with the CRTC laws, etc.

[emily_in_nc]

I am missing some US TV here in Mexico, where we have only Mexican cable. There are a couple of stations that have content in English, but they are very limited: Seinfeld, Friends, and Big Bang Theory in syndication, which we enjoy; and an entire channel on crime investigations ("Investigation Discovery"), which can be pretty engaging at times. We also like watching the Spanish cooking shows and can follow them pretty well.

What I miss is HGTV, the Weather Channel, and CNN. We get International CNN in Spanish, but that's of limited use to me. My reading in Spanish is getting better all the time, but as fast as they speak on news broadcasts, I can't catch much of it. There are a couple of US network shows I keep up with (though behind the times) using Hulu.com. Was sorry to see that "Resurrection" just had its season (and probably series) finale. I really liked that show, and it appears that it will not be renewed.

[OakLeaf]

We really haven't had a lot of trouble with weather interference with our satellite. If it's snow, it's no big deal to go sweep the dish off a little. Rain has to be EXTREMELY heavy before it'll interfere, and mostly when a storm's that bad, the electric is flickering and we'd turn off the TV and satellite receiver anyway. But if you're behind a lot of tree cover, wet leaves can definitely be too much for a satellite signal. I see that more often with my fitness GPS than I do with the TV.

Like I said in another thread, we're going to try satellite Internet when we get back north in the spring. We didn't have a good enough line of sight to get HughesNet back in the day (and had to buy the receiver to find that out ), but I'm hoping Exede's satellites are located differently enough and/or modern technology means we can get internet without needing a better signal than we need for TV. Our DSL is just painfully slow, to the point where we can't watch videos at all and often can't even stream audio. Bigger software updates usually mean lugging our gear to the Apple Store and swiping their bandwidth. Exede gets good reviews and I'm keeping my fingers crossed ...

[Nanci]

Just stopping in to say hi! I'm trying to figure out what the year number of the running shoes I loved was- thought I might have mentioned them here somewhere.

[Pax]

Hey Nanci! Long time no see, pop in more often.

[Trek420]

Hey Nanci! Nice to see you. Knott (who is sitting here) and I say howdy.