OT OT OT -- looking for home entertainment advice

[Guest guest]

I recall we were looking at satellite TV not to long ago, and when we read

the small print in the details we said forget it. Don't remember why.

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OT OT OT -- looking for home entertainment

advice

>

> We have cable. Marc wants satellite.

>

> He feels it is IMPERATIVE that have the same cartoon network all the

other kids have. At the moment, we don't have cable up that high.

>

> OK.

>

> Our cable is organized in tiers. In order to get the cartoon network,

we'd have to add two tiers to our service, bringing our bill up to $51 a

month. This would give us regular network TV up to channel 30 (which is

what we have now) plus about 30 more channels, including A & E, TLC (a

personal favorite), TBS, the comedy network, the sci fi channel, etc.

>

> A satellite company is having a free installation sale right now. So for

the cost of the satellite plus $52 a month, we could get 200 network

stations and three premium packages (including everything above) PLUS movie

channels.

>

> Here's what I have to decide: are the extra channels for the same price

worth having to watch the same thing on every TV? If we choose satellite,

I'll be watching frigging YuGiOh every day and I will never see Judge Judy

again! (ACK!)

>

> Marc really wants the satellite, but I'm not certain the trade-off is

worth it.

>

> Opinions?

>

> Jacquie

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I couldnt stand it! I gotta have my Judge Judy!

Jacquie H

OT OT OT -- looking for home entertainment advice

We have cable. Marc wants satellite.

He feels it is IMPERATIVE that have the same cartoon network all the

other kids have. At the moment, we don't have cable up that high.

OK.

Our cable is organized in tiers. In order to get the cartoon network, we'd

have to add two tiers to our service, bringing our bill up to $51 a month. This

would give us regular network TV up to channel 30 (which is what we have now)

plus about 30 more channels, including A & E, TLC (a personal favorite), TBS, the

comedy network, the sci fi channel, etc.

A satellite company is having a free installation sale right now. So for the

cost of the satellite plus $52 a month, we could get 200 network stations and

three premium packages (including everything above) PLUS movie channels.

Here's what I have to decide: are the extra channels for the same price worth

having to watch the same thing on every TV? If we choose satellite, I'll be

watching frigging YuGiOh every day and I will never see Judge Judy again!

(ACK!)

Marc really wants the satellite, but I'm not certain the trade-off is worth

it.

Opinions?

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

If you can get local channels, then I'd go for it. I'd have it if I

could get my local channels on antenna, but we can't due to our

location.

Besides, Judge Judy is a mean old heartless bitch who just likes to

belittle everyone and abuse her authority. IMO

I DID have the opportunity to go on her show, but I said NOOOOOOO

WAYYYYYYY.

>

> We have cable. Marc wants satellite.

>

> He feels it is IMPERATIVE that have the same cartoon network

all the other kids have. At the moment, we don't have cable up that

high.

>

> OK.

>

> Our cable is organized in tiers. In order to get the cartoon

network, we'd have to add two tiers to our service, bringing our bill

up to $51 a month. This would give us regular network TV up to

channel 30 (which is what we have now) plus about 30 more channels,

including A & E, TLC (a personal favorite), TBS, the comedy network,

the sci fi channel, etc.

>

> A satellite company is having a free installation sale right now.

So for the cost of the satellite plus $52 a month, we could get 200

network stations and three premium packages (including everything

above) PLUS movie channels.

>

> Here's what I have to decide: are the extra channels for the same

price worth having to watch the same thing on every TV? If we choose

satellite, I'll be watching frigging YuGiOh every day and I will

never see Judge Judy again! (ACK!)

>

> Marc really wants the satellite, but I'm not certain the trade-off

is worth it.

>

> Opinions?

>

> Jacquie

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

With a satilite, you have to sign a contract agreeing to 12 months of

service. If you have cable, you can cancel any old time. For that reason,

we went with cable, cause our money situation varies from time to time and

sometimes the cable has to go for a few months. I do know that you can order

extra receivers for the satilite, so can have his cartoons and you can

have your Judge Judy, but they do charge you for it.

My advice, go with cable.

Leigh

[Guest guest]

If we choose satellite, I'll be watching frigging YuGiOh every day and I

will never see Judge Judy again! (ACK!)

I think that the satellite company will give you a number of television

connections unlike the cable company. Then you can watch on a different

television (and if you have only one television, you can pick another one up

quite cheaply these days).

No one in my family can agree what to watch so we have three cable

connections.

Salli

[Guest guest]

Marc really wants the satellite, but I'm not certain the trade-off

is worth it.

>

> Opinions?

>

> Jacquie

I've had both...i now have cable...reason being, the

channels jenna likes i get on cable..PLUS...the REAL

reason i got cable, is because where i live it snows

ALOT..(upper WI)...and whenever it snowed, or rained

really bad, the satellite would go out...meaning, i

would have a very UPSET kid. It would be out between a couple

minutes to a couple hours...

and my opinion with all those other channels you get with the

dish, there isn't anything on them anyways...lol..and i

would rather not deal with the satellite going out and jenna

having a meltdown.

HTH~

nancy

[Guest guest]

>

> We have cable. Marc wants satellite.

> A satellite company is having a free installation sale right now.

So for the cost of the satellite plus $52 a month, we could get 200

network stations and three premium packages (including everything

above) PLUS movie channels.

>

We have satellite but cable isn't an option in my area. It simply

isn't available.

Here's the thing with the 200 channels. With our package over 20 of

those channels are music channels. No videos, just music rather like

a radio without commercials. Over 20 of those channels I don't think

should count because they're pay-per-view channels. Sure I can get

the latest movies almost as soon as they leave the theaters but I

have to pay for them. It's not a bad price, cheaper than renting a

video in my area but since I'm paying $50 a month and hate over 1/2

the channels that are available I feel like they ought to be free.

I can't get local channels on my satellite. Not sure if you can

in your area or not. A friend from work can get local channels, it

just depends on if the local channels allow that to happen. I'm not

sure how that differs in Canada.

The kids do have Disney east & west, Nick & Nick Toons, Cartoon

network and one other..can't remember the name but it plays more

educational shows, Sesame Street etc.

No HBO, Cinemax, or Showtime. We have Starz which isn't bad but I

can't watch shows like the Sopranos.

I don't think it's worth $50 a month but then I rarely watch TV. : /

Don't know if that helps any or not.

Tina

[Guest guest]

> PLUS...the REAL

> reason i got cable, is because where i live it snows

> ALOT..(upper WI)...and whenever it snowed, or rained

> really bad, the satellite would go out...meaning, i

> would have a very UPSET kid. It would be out between a couple

> minutes to a couple hours...

>

Oh! How could I forget that! We have the same problems when it rains

really hard. Snow doesn't knock it out for some reason but it's

almost spring and we're going to have to deal with 's meltdowns

when it goes out in the middle of Dora the Explorer again. : /

MAJOR problem for most of our kids.

Tina

[Guest guest]

I have to say one of the best things about having cable on 2 tvs is being

able to put the kids in one room watching Noggin and go into the other room

and watch what *I* want to watch.

Marc won't be home all day stuck watching Yu Gi Oh, now, will he?

The extra channels etc. are all very nice but is it worth it if you never

get to watch them?

Of course, at the moment, Gabe is watching a movie in here and

is watching Noggin in the bedroom.

I've never had satelite TV so...

-Sara.

[Guest guest]

> With satellite here, you have to buy or rent another base unit to do that,

which must be a pretty hefty cost because my ILs have three TVs and three

cottages on site with TVs, and my parents have three TVs, and neither of them

are willing to get more base units. :-( <

yep, that's why i switched from satellite to cable. with satellite each receiver

costs $99 and you need to have a special thing on your dish to hook them up.

with cable, you can have all your tv's on it at no extra cost. of course, only

the tv with the box gets the premium channels, but that's ok.

-------------------------

gina, 31, ny

single mom to -

kailey, 8, autism, hyperlexia, depression, anxiety, OCD, DSI

trevor, 3, multiple developmental delays, no " official " dx yet

parker jade, due 7-20-03 :-D

[Guest guest]

> yep, that's why i switched from satellite to cable. with satellite each

receiver costs $99 and you need to have a special thing on your dish to hook

them up. with cable, you can have all your tv's on it at no extra cost. of

course, only the tv with the box gets the premium channels, but that's ok.

>

Total opposite here! Satellite gives you three receivers and free

installation. Cable will not hook up all my tv's. We pay about ten dollars

per extra tv each month.

Sounds as if the deals vary pretty considerably from area to area.

Salli

[Guest guest]

>

>

> You must have a TV that you need a receiver for cable? 'Cuz both our TVs

> just get hooked from the TV into the wall cable socket, and both get the

> full number of channels you pay for...

>

Well, I need a receiver for each television that gets cable so it doesn't

sound like your deal either.

Salli

[Guest guest]

> thing on your dish to hook them up. with cable, you can have all

> your tv's on it at no extra cost. of course, only the tv with the

> box gets the premium channels, but that's ok.

That's how it is here too. The TV int he bedroom " only " gets 99 channels.

;P And we get the cable modem & internet service for an extra $20/month.

We were paying that for dialup!

-Sara.

[Guest guest]

Lmao, funny you brought up Dr. ...I was going to include her in

my Judy bashing post, but then thought better of it. I hate her even

worse, and REFUSE to add to her paycheck. LOL

She was kicked off the tv right?

>

> > Besides, Judge Judy is a mean old heartless bitch who just likes

to

> > belittle everyone and abuse her authority. IMO

>

>

> That's why I watch her! I'm also a closet (now uncloseted) fan of

Dr

> -- not because I agree with either of them, but because they

are just

> so damn amusing!

>

> Jacquie

[Guest guest]

We've had cable. I like getting the local channels, but I didn't

really care for cable. I thought it was too expensive also.

We've had satelite. Can't get the local channels, but got more

stations overall. Didn't like those either. I thought satelite was

too expensive also.

We watch videos and the couple of channels we can get with an

antenna.

That probably wasn't much help to you.

[Guest guest]

> The Cartoon Network. (canadian cable; you guys have nickelodeon or something

like that?) <

nope, we have cartoon network AND nickelodeon

-------------------------

gina, 31, ny

single mom to -

kailey, 8, autism, hyperlexia, depression, anxiety, OCD, DSI

trevor, 3, multiple developmental delays, no " official " dx yet

parker jade, due 7-20-03 :-D

[Guest guest]

We don't have cable or satellite. I can't get into the idea of having to

pay monthly to watch tv. Sorry, but I'm no help.

Sue

[Guest guest]

Yup!

Jacquie H

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advice

> Besides, Judge Judy is a mean old heartless bitch who just likes to

> belittle everyone and abuse her authority. IMO

That's why I watch her! I'm also a closet (now uncloseted) fan of Dr

-- not because I agree with either of them, but because they are just

so damn amusing!

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

We have cable. Marc wants satellite.

He feels it is IMPERATIVE that have the same cartoon network all the other

kids have. At the moment, we don't have cable up that high.

OK.

Our cable is organized in tiers. In order to get the cartoon network, we'd have

to add two tiers to our service, bringing our bill up to $51 a month. This

would give us regular network TV up to channel 30 (which is what we have now)

plus about 30 more channels, including A & E, TLC (a personal favorite), TBS, the

comedy network, the sci fi channel, etc.

A satellite company is having a free installation sale right now. So for the

cost of the satellite plus $52 a month, we could get 200 network stations and

three premium packages (including everything above) PLUS movie channels.

Here's what I have to decide: are the extra channels for the same price worth

having to watch the same thing on every TV? If we choose satellite, I'll be

watching frigging YuGiOh every day and I will never see Judge Judy again!

(ACK!)

Marc really wants the satellite, but I'm not certain the trade-off is worth it.

Opinions?

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 3/15/03 6:40:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,

bunnytiner@... writes:

> If we choose satellite, I'll be watching frigging YuGiOh every day

Could you tell me who that YoGiOh person is? Since I have never seen it I'll

assume that it's not on PBS which is all I ever watch. Some children that

was playing with had the trading cards and I was wondering if this is

something that she will need to learn to play with.

Thanks

[Guest guest]

For $150 you can get a direct tv satelitte with Tivo DVR - - get it

installed with two tuners and your machine can be watching one thing and

recording another - - kids get cartoon network - - you get all the Judge

Judy you can handle when they go to bed ... Now Tivo has it's own monthly

fee attached, but there is an option for a one time lifetime subscription,

which isn't badly priced. Here's the one we got:

http://www.americansatellite.com/products/viewprod.asp?SID=62EZAG64725072UMK

Y7KXBX558UT60Z61 & ITEM=761

Then I just called a local company to install, for like $25. Trust me, you

don't want to do it yourself.

, who adores her Tivo

(ps: behind on posts ... 227 more to go ...)

MSN elizabethloht@...

n 32, mo, no formal dx

Phoebe, 4 wks

OT OT OT -- looking for home entertainment

advice

>

> We have cable. Marc wants satellite.

>

> He feels it is IMPERATIVE that have the same cartoon network all the

other kids have. At the moment, we don't have cable up that high.

>

> OK.

>

> Our cable is organized in tiers. In order to get the cartoon network,

we'd have to add two tiers to our service, bringing our bill up to $51 a

month. This would give us regular network TV up to channel 30 (which is

what we have now) plus about 30 more channels, including A & E, TLC (a

personal favorite), TBS, the comedy network, the sci fi channel, etc.

>

> A satellite company is having a free installation sale right now. So for

the cost of the satellite plus $52 a month, we could get 200 network

stations and three premium packages (including everything above) PLUS movie

channels.

>

> Here's what I have to decide: are the extra channels for the same price

worth having to watch the same thing on every TV? If we choose satellite,

I'll be watching frigging YuGiOh every day and I will never see Judge Judy

again! (ACK!)

>

> Marc really wants the satellite, but I'm not certain the trade-off is

worth it.

>

> Opinions?

>

> Jacquie

>

>

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 3/16/2003 3:38:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,

vhunnius@... writes:

> The trading cards are Duel Monsters cards. Some kids actually duel with

> them; Salli's Enrique does -- but he's 16! Most of the grade one and two

> kids I've seen with them just collect them, and don't actually play Duel

> Monsters, as it has a complicated scoring and strategy system.

>

> I got a pack of 9 trading cards from the tooth fairy this last time.

> Cost me $6! DEFINITELY not owrth it for a 6yo who just likes to look at

> the

> pictures.

>

>

Luckily they are only 3 bucks a pack here:) can duel, he has memerized

the rules book, he has most of the monsters' powers to memory. It is by far

his biggest fascination, and I really hate it since he is " stuck " in that

world 24-7 some weeks, but it is a BIG social thing for . He has more

cards than any NT in his school and they all flock to see his latest editions

and to get some facts. plays pretty hard nosed when it comes to

dueling, and most other 1st and 2nd grader sort of deviate a bit from the

rules, so they don't actually duel him long, but I have witnessed discussions

with other kids lasting up to 20 minutes about the characters! It is usually

the NT who ends up walking away, could chat about them all day:)

Tommi

[Guest guest]

> Besides, Judge Judy is a mean old heartless bitch who just likes to

> belittle everyone and abuse her authority. IMO

That's why I watch her! I'm also a closet (now uncloseted) fan of Dr

-- not because I agree with either of them, but because they are just

so damn amusing!

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> I think that the satellite company will give you a number of television

> connections unlike the cable company. Then you can watch on a different

> television (and if you have only one television, you can pick another one

up

> quite cheaply these days).

We have cable hook-up in every room here. They were here when we got here.

We have two TVs and can watch two different things, as well as tape two

more.

With satellite here, you have to buy or rent another base unit to do that,

which must be a pretty hefty cost because my ILs have three TVs and three

cottages on site with TVs, and my parents have three TVs, and neither of

them are willing to get more base units. :-(

AT my ILs resort, renters must come to the main house to request a

particular TV channel -- and then EVERYONE has to watch it.

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> > yep, that's why i switched from satellite to cable. with satellite each

receiver costs $99 and you need to have a special thing on your dish to hook

them up. with cable, you can have all your tv's on it at no extra cost. of

course, only the tv with the box gets the premium channels, but that's ok.

>

You must have a TV that you need a receiver for cable? 'Cuz both our TVs

just get hooked from the TV into the wall cable socket, and both get the

full number of channels you pay for...

Jacquie