Seniors - Serious answers only please - - - do you have Cable TV . . . . ?

We've had everything. And now we are without everything.

Now we rely on what reception we can get in on overcast and

rainy days, etc. We first were with a couple different cable

companies, then we got tired of the increases in cost after

their intro fees had stopped. Then we switched to the dish,

and liked the lessor cost, but service was often interrupted.

We had men come out to change the location of the dish but

that helped little. So now we're back to doing without of alot

of our favorite cable shows and watch just the local channels.

And if there's none worth seeing, we watch one of the old ones in our large collection over again. Or we read, or are

on the computer, which is where I most often am. Even tho

we enjoy the cable shows, it isn't worth the almost $50.00

a month, which we can't afford now anyway. They raised our

rent by $50.00 a month, so that we have no choice in. So it's

rent, vs cable. And that's the way it is.

We have cable TV. Even though we live near the center of our city, the dish signal in our neighborhood is not great-we suspect we live too close to the transmitter or perhaps it is the trees that breakup the signal. I wish there were more competition for the cable company, the prices keep increasing and the channel line-up is changing...again. We went without cable for 2 years, but my husband prefers cable for sports and I do like many of the cable networks.

No way!

I have an "antennae" service offered by our local cable company which eliminated the "rabbit ears" I used. It costs 9.95 a month. That's the most I am willing to pay for anything on TV. Antennae service gets me the local channels and a coupla shopping thingies, a few religious sites and that's it.

Be dammed if I would actually pay for bad TV....I can get all I want for next-to-nothing. Besides, that 40 or 50 dollars a month looks good in my savings account.....helps me travel and cruise......

If I really want to watch a good movie, I have a collection of over 300 videos and DVD's with films that most channels don't show.

Yes A TV with cable from service provider. But no dish. We get almost 60 channels.

We have cable....used to have a dish....never again. A lot of the stations are based on the East Coast. We live on the West Coast (3 hour difference), so the TV schedule was always "off" by 3 hours.

Cable

I wanted high speed internet when I moved into my house, and cable was the only thing available. So, I had to buy a minimum monthly package for my television to get the internet.But, my cable bill increases about $8-$10 a year, so I am going to start shopping around.

We have cable. We tried Direct TV (sattelite) for a year, but it kept going out almost every time it rained. As soon as our contract was over, we switched back to cable. It's more expensive, but we don't keep missing the ends of shows.

I can't afford any of those things myself I live in an apartment complex that provides basic cable as an amenity. I suppose the cost is in the rent. I have no idea what will occur 2/2009.

I'll answer for my mom who doesn't have internet. She's got cable, but is considering a dish because it seems to be cheaper. We're going to investigate further before switching though (channels available, equipment costs, etc.).