{"id":2279,"date":"2009-06-15T07:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2009-06-15T07:21:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:21:05","slug":"digital-cable-discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/digital-cable-discontent\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital cable discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s been a little less than a week since we’ve had our fancy new digital cable box<\/a>, and you know what?<\/p>\n

Even with 600+ channels, there’s STILL nothing on TV.<\/p>\n

Worse, I now spend my precious hour or so of TV time each night scaling through the digital TV Guide gadget looking <\/em>for stuff to watch instead of actually, you know, watching stuff. There may yet be a learning curve so I don’t have to scroll painfully through all 600 channels looking for a particular channel or, worse, hoping to serendipitously find something worth watching, but right now the TV is actually adding to the agitation rather than distracting me from it. <\/p>\n

I’m paying for this experience? (Ha, well, not for the next 5 3\/4 months I’m not!)<\/p>\n

In the last week, I’ve watched about two hours of the Food network, and the boys have come to love 1970s-era superhero cartoons on early morning Toon Retro. And that’s about it. Everything else is just 50 timeshifted or HD or who knows what versions of the same crap that wasn’t worth watching last week, either.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of things I would have liked to watch on the retro sitcom networks, but we don’t get those channels. Beloved was excited to get the National Geographic channel, but we don’t get that channel. And I would have invested an hour or so on Saturday afternoon in MuchMusicRetro (it’s my fave at the gym) but — wait for it — we don’t get that channel, either. Just about everything I found in the electronic guide that made me say, “Oh! That looks good!” ended up with a screen telling me that I don’t have access to that channel. For an additional fee, though, they’d be happy to hook me up. Bah.<\/p>\n

And just by the way? Why can’t all the on-demand stuff be on the same channel? I spent at least 20 minutes yesterday trying to figure out why the Treehouse-on-demand show I had saved for the boys was nowhere to be found on the Rogers-on-demand channel until I realized they were two separate entities.<\/p>\n

All in all, I’d have to say that my first week of digital cable has left me unimpressed. We haven’t even tried out the PVR yet because there was simply nothing worth recording.<\/p>\n

Oh well, I suppose I can always use my former TV time to catch up on my blog reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s been a little less than a week since we’ve had our fancy new digital cable box, and you know what? Even with 600+ channels, there’s STILL nothing on TV. Worse, I now spend my precious hour or so of TV time each night scaling through the digital TV Guide gadget looking for stuff … Continue reading “Digital cable discontent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-culture","category-rants-and-rambles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}