Antenna frustration!
Filed under: Comm
Anybody else out there using an antenna for their TV? I personally am getting a bit tired of it. In general it works fairly well, but when it is windy or stormy then the signal gets weak and it goes in and out. Really that is not to bad but I am very tired of having to get up (yes, lazy) to change the positioning of the antenna. It really seems that each station needs it in a different direction. It is either each station or each show. Either way it is really a pain in the butt! Usually it’s a pain in my butt, cause I am the lazy fellow that has to get up to change it. It goes against my anti exercise stance. What can you do, though?
Anyway, I am thinking about cable or satellite TV again. I looked into it before, looking for cable and satellite help, but never broke down to do it. Still not sure if I am that desperate yet, but I am getting there. I Have kind of looked at companies like Sky or Direct TV but the biggest problem with paying for cable or satellite is that you get so many useless channels. I was wondering why they somebody doesn’t have a choose your own channels package or something. I think it would be a great hit. I would go for it, especially if it was a bit discounted. I haven’t seen anything like that though. I’ve checked Virgin Media, which looks good, and Comcast for different areas. I don’t need three hundred channels when I will probably only ever watch about fifteen of them regularly, though. That is not to say I want all the channels to go away, cause choice is a very important thing! My fifteen channels or so are probably not the fifteen or so that the next guy would want to watch. So having a ‘do it yourself’ or diy package would be a wonderful thing. I wonder if they don’t currently have the capability to offer something like that. I can see the first one to offer that getting a whole lot of customers almost immediately. They could do like a pay per view thing, where you look at the movies on your tv and then choose the one you want and are charged for it. If they could do the same with a pay per channel thing.
Tags: antenna, cable, satellites, signal