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we have charter Digital cable....about 200 channels

60-70 or so.

Wait a minute. I'm paying $21,000 a year in tuition at the school where your dad is a full professor, and you can't afford cable? Where the hell is all my money going???

Incidentally, if you see him, please don't mention it. He can be rather touchy about it.

HemlockGrey wrote:

Wait a minute. I'm paying $21,000 a year in tuition at the school where your dad is a full professor, and you can't afford cable? Where the hell is all my money going???

Incidentally, if you see him, please don't mention it. He can be rather touchy about it.

I've found mentioning salaries in front of any Villanova professor is likely to bring out their unpleasant side. Understandable, considering the cars in the student parking lot are usually nicer than the ones in the faculty lot.

I actually haven't seen him at all this semester. I don't have class with him and I work the closing shift at the library. It's kinda too bad. He was one of my favorite professors here, even though I did have a habit of missing his classes (not his fault--last semester his was the first of the day and I always miss the first of the day a lot, and the time before that his class started exactly the same time my (at the time) new girlfriend's classes ended and her roomate was out of the room. My extracirricular activities were interfering with my class schedule, as it were).

Icehawk wrote:The Cable package we have gets about 60 something in total I believe, but everything after channel 51 is totally useless crap.

Out of everything we get the only ones I think that have anything really worth watching are:

I get the same channel line up but I only watch these instead.

CBC: 6 (Hockey)
CityTV: 7 (movies)
NVR: 20
FOX: 28 (freak shows)
TSN: 30 (Hockey & sport news)
TLC: 34
Showcase: 39 (...)
Bravo: 40 (Sex & the city)
Discovery: 42
SuperStation: 47 (movies)
Space: 50
SportsTickerChannel: 53 (When I need to see the score fast)

The others are complete trash and a waste of numbers.

Five Godsdamned channels! FIVE!

salm wrote:three
ARD, ZDF and Südwest 3
all of them are stateowned, commercial free channels. the best three channels on air over here. the only problem is that the simpsons and futurama are on Pro7 which i dont get.

ahhh state owned TV! speekin ze propeganda

i have digital cable...shit must be like 300 channels 8 of which are in spanish...(they have ESPN in spanish now...GO-OOOOOAL!) 3 Potugese, 2 Italian, 1 French, 1 multi-Asian language and 1 god knows what language. I'm still waiting for AL-Jazzera. lol

Good question. Theoretically several hundred but I use
only about 30.

salm wrote:three
ARD, ZDF and Südwest 3

Get a satellite dish.

Thunderfire wrote:

salm wrote:three
ARD, ZDF and Südwest 3

Get a satellite dish.

easier said than done...not all of us have access to the cash needed for that kind of thing

A cheap one + receiver cost about 100 Euros.

5 :

BBC 1
BBC 2
ITV
Channel 4
Channel 5

(Yep, over in the UK we got some really origional names )

All because my parents are too scapeskate to get Sky or Digital

5. hey, I'm a student!

But I have fully paid up this year, tho.

Good Brat!

4 channels.

Whilst in Britian, I watched Sky.

Interestingly enough, it was all American television.

BTW, for the Brits, I only saw one Brit show on at the time that I liked, and I only saw one episode; it was a fairly decent comedy called 'The House that Jack Built'

Caught some reruns of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet too. Loved 'em.

60, but I only watch 5 of them, and 2 of those 5 are weather channels. I honestly don't need TV for anything other than weather, traffic, and news reports. I discovered how worthless TV is when I went 4 months without it during my first year of university and didn't feel like I was missing anything.

salm wrote:

Dahak wrote:

salm wrote:three
When I waited for my cable, I was forced to watch those three. I almost got eye cancer from those.
Pro7 just beats them by miles when it comes down to entertainment.

bah, pro7 is crap! the only good things they broadcast are the the simpsons and futurama. besides that they show the talkshows mentioned above from 14:00 to like 17:00 then the stupid rosanne clones and and at 20:15 movie which is a "weltpremiere" because it´s a pro7 production and after that they start their comedy program. no, stefan raab is NOT funny, he´s a fucking dumbass!

Never said Raab is even remotely funny.
And most sitcoms are definitely no Roseanne clone.
I very much like to watch sitcoms, and here Pro7 beats the rest. Will&Grace, Dharma&Greg, Friends... And other series I would terribly miss.
Whereas ZDF brings us Forsthaus Falkenau or some equaly lame shit.

Dahak wrote:

salm wrote:

Dahak wrote: bah, pro7 is crap! the only good things they broadcast are the the simpsons and futurama. besides that they show the talkshows mentioned above from 14:00 to like 17:00 then the stupid rosanne clones and and at 20:15 movie which is a "weltpremiere" because it´s a pro7 production and after that they start their comedy program. no, stefan raab is NOT funny, he´s a fucking dumbass!

Never said Raab is even remotely funny.
And most sitcoms are definitely no Roseanne clone.
I very much like to watch sitcoms, and here Pro7 beats the rest. Will&Grace, Dharma&Greg, Friends... And other series I would terribly miss.
Whereas ZDF brings us Forsthaus Falkenau or some equaly lame shit.

jup, forshaus falkenau and das traumshiff, as i said 90% crap. but that´s still better than the 99.9% crap that the privats broadcast. let´s keep this pointles argument about taste going.
or maybe not.
imo, tv is mostly a waste of time. besides a couple of good documentaries and the news i dont watch anything. if i want to see a movie i rather get it on video from the "frisco familien videothek" around the corner. only exception is when i´m at a freinds place and totally stoned, then i can even enjoy "hinter gittern - der frauenknast"

8 channels: 4 french 3 english and 1 multi-ethnic.

bout a hundred. only watch about 8 of them tho, i mean who really wants to watch home and leisure????

300 and something. I watch:

History channel
discovery
Tech TV
Fox (SIMPSONS!)
Cartoon Network (Adult Swims, weeknights, weekends)
sci-fi (if only for Farscpae and SG-1)

Thats all I can think of. Six outta three hundred aint bad...

HemlockGrey wrote:My house gets seven channels

I am so sorry

I have about 80 channels not including blanks. Once I had 200 for a short while. It is weird. I was watching my cable tv, and then all the sudden the channel changed to channel 125 showing some Africans (I think) with missing legs and shit. I was flipping through the channels and got near around 200 seeing this gay drawing of a girl flying around and then all of the sudden, it went back to normal. That was a strange experience. Back then we lived in a apartment building so that probably has something to do with it.

Thunderfire wrote:A cheap one + receiver cost about 100 Euros.

roughly about a 100 euros more than I have

I get:

NBC (2)
PBS (8 )
UPN (20)
WB (39)
CBS (11)
ABC (13)

I only watch maybe 2-3 hours of TV a week, so I'm not missing anything.

Yeah, actually I don't watch that much TV except for the Simpsons and a few others that I watch as it comes on. Mostly I have the TV on just for the noise cause I don't like being on the computer and there being no noise around except that from the computer