YA TV Guide thread

[FTA Michael]

I got my weekly Comcrud flier in the mail today, with a photo of a harried man and a static TV behind him, titled "Fed up with the dish?". (Why would Dish suddenly go out like that? But I digress.)

Anyway, in its third bullet point advertising the cool features it provides, Comcrud sang the praises of its TV Guide channel, which lets cable subs see what's on TV on dozens of channels.

IMHO, this is the real value (besides the lawsuit-settling thing) of Dish having the TV Guide channel. When Grandma checks channel-by-channel whether the newfangled Dish will provide everything she's used to, she may skip past this "program guide" stuff if it's not TV Guide(R). I figure that if Dish really didn't want to carry the channel, it could have paid a little more to settle without it.

Or maybe it's just an indictment of the poor state of cable that Comcrud feels obligated to go so quickly to TV Guide when trying to think of positive things to say.

[Geronimo]

MY cable comapny used to brag that they had 120 channels. This was in spite of the fact that 13 of them showed colored bars with text. They also called me shortly after I ordered satellite to ask me if I missed the "Fairfax County Most wanted" channel. That was a channel that showed stills of wanted posters.

I occasiaonally miss the local news channel but not often. I do not miss frequent outages, missed service calls or very much else about the whole cable experience.

[robfwb]

TV Guide Channel is Cable's pride and joy because of the inserted ad's. Plain and simple.

Comcast deserves to lose stock since they took away tech tv.

Rob

http://www.robfwb.com