"6 AM 120 channels of Infomercials...." Topic

What is going on with cable? I remember when it was touted as commercial free pay TV. Now I pay and I watch commercial after commercial. The programing has really gone to the dogs. TV land, at one time, had show after show of theose old TV gems that were hard to find from the 50's 60's and 70's with some pold commercials thrown in. Now they chow daily marathons of Roseanne, Mash and Bonanza.

What is this world coming to? If not for the sports, I would cut it out of my budget all together. Sad….Last night, my only movie channel-AMC offered one movie all night-"Night of the Living Dead." Granted, a classic, but c'mon. Help me out here. The rest of the channels had cop shows which make up about 75 % of what is shown and bore me to tears.

All I can say is -thank God for books and painting miniatures.

I have a digitial recorder, so I pick what I want to see and if there is nothing on, I just watch something I recorded earlier.

I only recently got a DVR, but it is a lifesaver. I usually go through the upcoming week for all of my favorite channels and have it record those things at least marginally of interest. Being able to fast forward through all the commercials when I do watch them is an added bonus.

As much as the infomercials, I get annoyed with the fly-in ads that appear on-screen in the middle of a show. Even the premium channels are doing that crap now.

To paraphrase: "400 channels, and nothin' on"

- Bob

Cable TV is pretty much a scam… at least for the price we're paying.
Most of the content is recycled stuff you avoided the first time it was on free TV. Most all of it is chock-full of commercials.
The good stuff is in the minority and usually involves paying even more.
If it wasn't for TCM and CSPAN I doubt I'd watch it at all.
The only reason I pay for it is because it's a house-wide decision to get it.

Well my cable package meant I got a faster Internet connection etc, for less money than the previous one.

I really believe that these specialty channels started with the vision of providing the finest quality of special interest programming.

Then the bean counters realized they could make way more money pushing mass-market crap, and ditched the visionaries and their delusions of quality and soon as they could persuade the board that they were all here for the money, anyway.