05-12-2019, 09:08 PM
(05-12-2019, 05:50 PM)GCG Wrote:I don't mind paying a few bucks for ad free tv. With DTV you pay a lot AND get ads,(05-12-2019, 05:20 PM)bbqboy Wrote:I don't mind paying a few bucks for ad free tv. With DTV you pay a lot AND get ads, (as mentioned by Cuzz). And I was not grousing about not getting the local channels as much as I was grousing about paying for them AND not getting them. With DTV I can DVR the programming and watch vitrually ad free. Over the antenna I cannot.(05-12-2019, 12:51 PM)tvguy Wrote:GCG said he wasn’t going to bother with an over the air antenna to pick up local channels, which is what he originally groused about.(05-12-2019, 09:58 AM)bbqboy Wrote: All TV and radio is paid for someway. Ads were just in lieu of a tax, as happens in other countries.
Same with internet based entertainment.
For instance, I’d pay a tax to not be subjected to the incessant commercials featuring the Garrison kid, an obvious spawn of the devil.
Actually, ALL the kids in local commercials.
Talking to you, Smokey’s Stoves.
All TV and radio is paid for someway.
Well why would anyone broadcast without getting paid.
Just thought it odd.
You are right we do pay a lot. But with me it is indeed ad free because every single thing I watch is recorded so I fast forward through commercials.
Over the antenna I cannot ....
Remember when everyone had a VHS player ans you could record anything on your TV?