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What happens when your cable tv provider gets into a snit over costs of channels??  The programming costs keep going up and so they push the cost onto the subscribers, and that is fine until they push back.. Back a few years ago, quite a few years ago actually, we had dish network mostly for the choice in programming but also because the cable tv had twelve channels which wasn't horrible.. As It turns out I was watching fewer and fewer channels and so switched first to digital cable, and then to the analog cable which is only some fifty or so channels.. That and use of the Roku has changed my viewing for the better.. Most of the better channels on the Roku are VOD which is short for Video On Demand which means no more getting in on the show ten minutes after it started.. With our cable tv system currently in a negotiation ploy to drive the price down, it won't work.. They are way too small.. They likely lose several subscribers to satellite systems every year.. Sadly they are our internet provider and likely to fold up completely if they lose cable tv.. Then we will be looking at a satellite provider for all three (tv, internet and phone service)..   Hard to believe that the consolidation of these services elsewhere are what might be causing this to be going on here now.. But the little guy gets squeezed in the deal.. I knew it might happen when the big two cable tv companies announced they will try to merge their companies.. Not only does it effect their subscribers in a negative way but it looks like it is effecting us here in podunk land..  The worst part of tv in any delivered version is the nasty tiers they have.. Both satellite companies out there have their tiers and you look and see "oh, this is in the lowend tier here but not there"...  Seriously how much is enough??  How many channels do we need??  What tier has the most of what I want without paying for the usual twenty plus channels that I will never watch??  With this tier you get three hundred channels of which twenty might be watched.. You can set your list and exclude the chaff.. Well you are still paying for those channels even though you won't be watching them.. Univision, I'm looking at you, or rather I'm not.. And that goes as well for all you spanish channels as well as all the home shopping channels.. Buy two hundred to watch twenty.. WHAT A DEAL.. Get that screw out your ass..  Reamed.. Well we  will stay with cable tv for now.. Until they pull the plug on ESPN, then dish.. HERE WE COME...   


Badge Henry