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dpb

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For the same channels satellite TV is cheaper than cable.

TODAY no long term commitments are necessary, lease model cancel and
just return the receivers. no buyouts or penalties

obviously no one here has a DVR or TIVO or you would be going on and on
about how nice it is to skip commercials and watch whaat you want on
your schedule and not the networks. sooner or later you too will be
assimiliated my dad refused even after i gave him one for christmas.
within a few months he bought one after hearing from so many friends
how great it was.

he apologized for being well dad hardhead......

a major downside to rotors if you have more than one tv watching shows
in different directions your stuck..........

That certainly has not been an option I've been offered nor heard
advertised here, but as I noted, it isn't the programming that I'm
interested in. The closest I've heard on the "rental" thing has a
hefty up-front payment that isn't refundable and the deferred or
included installation fees are then collectible and payable and aren't
all the cheap. And, even if they did, it doesn't solve the problem of
the "locals" not being the ones I have interest in.

And, yes, no one here has DVR, TIVO. Also, there's only one set and
there are not going to be any more. It doesn't help any to kill the
commercials during the local news and weather; it isn't going to get it
transmitted any earlier, and as soon as it and the sports are over, it
usually goes on mute again, anyway; the wife goes to bed and I read a
while longer. I may listen to the "Top Ten" list or the Leno
"Headlines" on Mondays, but other than that, "off" is the normal
position. (Oh, I forgot, Red Green usually gets his shot on Friday
night as does the local farm markets weekly review show.)