You do however pay for channels. If you have ESPN in your lineup ESPN is getting about $5 a month from you. Few commercial channels allow themselves to be carried on cable for free.
SyFy is and SciFi was a paid cable network. Every customer who has SyFy in their lineup is paying somewhere between 20 cents to a dollar a month for the channel.
The problem with any niche channel is once they get broad distribution it is more profitable to show generic garbage that gets more viewers than the niche content that started the channel.
The fact that the Science Channel is showing science fiction content is another example of a niche channel going for a broader audience.
UHF Channels 52-69 were auctioned off, stations can still use channels 2-51 regardless of the virtual channel number displayed by the receiver. Many stations currently on VHF-Hi channels 7-13 with analog are currently using temporary UHF channels now BUT when they shut down their analog transmitters they will be moving back to VHF-Hi. Most stations are fleeing from 2-6 for digital but we will have some digital stations on VHF-Lo post transition.
I think this trial shutdown showed they are not doing enough education on Antennas. People who were putting up with poor analog reception on rabbit ears need to buy a good quality indoor antenna or put up an aerial.
Watch it with an antenna and avoid paying anything.
If I buy what is needed to make a hamburger I am not charged any tax (In my city anyway) but if I order it from McDonalds I have to pay sales tax.
The end of 750 Mhz is analog cable channel 117, my local cable system starts digital on 67 ~480Mhz and currently ends on 113 ~727Mhz with some empty channels in the range. I know my system is not unique so I would be interested in your technical reasons.
Cable companies have plenty of capacity if they drop analog cable entirely or even start using the parts that no longer carry stations. (TW/Raleigh has room for ~40 HD stations above the analog broadcasts. That number goes up every year as they reduce the analog tier.)
Do you understand those "empty" channels are where those digital services are transmitted?
They do owe, we all pay into something called the universal service fund that subsidizes the cost to connect distant and otherwise unprofitable customers.
The credit card companies don't have a problem basing themselves in states with weak usury laws to override states with stricter usury laws. Seems fair that states regain some control. Though I live in Arizona that doesn't have any of these laws that I know of.
I don't think you actually have overdraft protection if they charged you $25 plus $5 a day. That sounds like an overdraft charge with a daily negative balance penalty. Overdraft protection is usually more like a cash advance on a credit card like 3% of the amount transfered plus interest or linked to a savings account to pull from savings.
I can't get Sundance unless I buy Showtime as it is. The point of a-la carte is to not pay for what you don't want. How about the majority of subscribers who pay large fees for ESPN but never watch it?
That show is syndicated meaning it was purchased by the station and did not come from the network. Your complaint should lie with your local tv station.
You know, I've been able to stream ABC,CBS,Fox,NBC etc in HD for years now for free! It doesn't even tie up my internet connection. Its called an antenna. I connected it to my computer and I can even save the stream to watch whenever I want.
The dime is that way because it used to made of silver, if they made it any larger it would have been worth too much. Dime, Quarter, half dollar and silver dollars were all made of silver and the size of the coin reflected the value.
For the people who think half dollars are too big just look at this size of a real silver dollar (That is really worth about $13 now)
If you had read the fucking article would have known that they mention VERA and how much it sucked. It moved tape at 16 feet per second and could only record 15 minutes at 3Mhz while Ampex ran 15 inches per second and recorded 90 minutes at a full 4Mhz. The article should have been posted as the first pratical VTR.
Sure the 721 doesn't have dishpass but it doesn't have the $6 a month DVR fee nor is it subject to the $5 monthly fine for not connecting the phone line.
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You do however pay for channels. If you have ESPN in your lineup ESPN is getting about $5 a month from you. Few commercial channels allow themselves to be carried on cable for free.
if SyFy had been a paid cable network
SyFy is and SciFi was a paid cable network. Every customer who has SyFy in their lineup is paying somewhere between 20 cents to a dollar a month for the channel. The problem with any niche channel is once they get broad distribution it is more profitable to show generic garbage that gets more viewers than the niche content that started the channel. The fact that the Science Channel is showing science fiction content is another example of a niche channel going for a broader audience.
That still happens
My antenna reception of the broadcast networks in HD is free, with a DVR there is more programing than I have time to watch.
UHF Channels 52-69 were auctioned off, stations can still use channels 2-51 regardless of the virtual channel number displayed by the receiver. Many stations currently on VHF-Hi channels 7-13 with analog are currently using temporary UHF channels now BUT when they shut down their analog transmitters they will be moving back to VHF-Hi. Most stations are fleeing from 2-6 for digital but we will have some digital stations on VHF-Lo post transition. I think this trial shutdown showed they are not doing enough education on Antennas. People who were putting up with poor analog reception on rabbit ears need to buy a good quality indoor antenna or put up an aerial.
Its probably from Dish Network and if you don't get SCIFI the boxes at the head end probably aren't authorized for it.
Watch it with an antenna and avoid paying anything. If I buy what is needed to make a hamburger I am not charged any tax (In my city anyway) but if I order it from McDonalds I have to pay sales tax.
I've haven't seen an analog set go past 125 either but all the QAM tuners I've seen scan up to 135
The end of 750 Mhz is analog cable channel 117, my local cable system starts digital on 67 ~480Mhz and currently ends on 113 ~727Mhz with some empty channels in the range. I know my system is not unique so I would be interested in your technical reasons.
They do owe, we all pay into something called the universal service fund that subsidizes the cost to connect distant and otherwise unprofitable customers.
The credit card companies don't have a problem basing themselves in states with weak usury laws to override states with stricter usury laws. Seems fair that states regain some control. Though I live in Arizona that doesn't have any of these laws that I know of.
I don't think you actually have overdraft protection if they charged you $25 plus $5 a day. That sounds like an overdraft charge with a daily negative balance penalty. Overdraft protection is usually more like a cash advance on a credit card like 3% of the amount transfered plus interest or linked to a savings account to pull from savings.
A lot of stations are simulcasting in digital now
I can't get Sundance unless I buy Showtime as it is. The point of a-la carte is to not pay for what you don't want. How about the majority of subscribers who pay large fees for ESPN but never watch it?
That show is syndicated meaning it was purchased by the station and did not come from the network. Your complaint should lie with your local tv station.
You know, I've been able to stream ABC,CBS,Fox,NBC etc in HD for years now for free! It doesn't even tie up my internet connection. Its called an antenna. I connected it to my computer and I can even save the stream to watch whenever I want.
The dime is that way because it used to made of silver, if they made it any larger it would have been worth too much. Dime, Quarter, half dollar and silver dollars were all made of silver and the size of the coin reflected the value.
For the people who think half dollars are too big just look at this size of a real silver dollar (That is really worth about $13 now)
My state and I'm sure all the others have hefty fines and jail time for cable theft.
I think TV Guide has a patent on grid guides and is why the guides built into new tvs are usually plain.
In the US not all phones are GSM with SIM cards, two large cell companies use CDMA and one of them will not activate CDMA phones they didn't sell.
The US has been metric since 1866, there is just no rule you can't use the other system.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
If you had read the fucking article would have known that they mention VERA and how much it sucked. It moved tape at 16 feet per second and could only record 15 minutes at 3Mhz while Ampex ran 15 inches per second and recorded 90 minutes at a full 4Mhz. The article should have been posted as the first pratical VTR.
Sure the 721 doesn't have dishpass but it doesn't have the $6 a month DVR fee nor is it subject to the $5 monthly fine for not connecting the phone line.