It took my parents over a week to cancel our Direct TV subscription they kept bouncing us around, putting us on hold and refusing to cancel it. With streaming you just need to click few buttons.
I might actually make a part 2 for this video with how problematic cable is and the cable companies intentionally make it difficult to cancel your cable subscription so you give up.
I remember when I was little, Mom said when we get our first color TV, we are getting cable. I lived just west of Pittsburgh near the airport in a flight path and airplanes flying in would cause the picture to flutter on the 1959 Philco. We got color in 1971 and cable where it was like $7 a month. Back then you got all Pittsburgh channels plus some from Youngstown, Wheeling, Steubenville and Johnstown. We had the Air Force Reserve at that time where they flew in the old C-124 Globemaster II with piston engines, those were murder on OTA TV.
@@ArtieRaccoonReviews Yeah , I remember seeing a bill from 1971 and it was like $7 and some change and for a few dollars extra, they had cable FM for your FM stereo. I lived in Moon Township and the Coraopolis area west on Pittsburgh near the airport and cable was becoming popular because of the planes flying around like the 1940's era C124 piston engined monster planes and the F-102 interceptors. As I said before, the only outside channels we received was the adjacent markets plus we did have a local weather channel as well where it was a basic camera setup on a rack where it moved back and forth across the gauges for temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, etc and it was only black and white. I remember 1978 was a big year, we got Superstation WOR out of New York City and HBO in June of that year. I remember watching my first HBO movie, Marathon Man, with Dustin Hoffman. By 1980/81, we started to get MTV, USA Network, CNN, Cinemax, Nickelodeon, A&E and a could of others. If you had the 8 channel box, you were in fat city. I remember many a late night where if I stayed at my buddy's house, we'd sneak down to watch the bold rated "R" movies where they were getting close to "X" rated, we used to call Cinemax, "Skin--a-Msx." We also enjoyed Benny Hill on Cinemax and WOR as well. HBO went off the air around Midnight until 1981/82 IIRC. Our cable company was local, it was called "Astrovision" which was founded in 1966, again, it was a huge deal because of all the airline traffic. WE got it in 1971 when we got color. A local family owned it, I graduated with one of them in 1985. They sold the company to New CHannels, out of North Carolina, about 1984/85 maybe, it is a little murky but I remember I was in high school. In the early 1990's they sold out to Time Warner. We went to Florida to see my relatives in 1999 and over the two weeks we were gone, Time WArner sold out to TCI and TCI sould out to Verizon where it is now. When we got back home, Mom and I thought, WTF? Another local company up in the Western PA area was Adelphia, they were in Altoona PA IIRC. BTW, a side note about Pittsburgh OTA channels then, we had two PBS stations, Channel 13, WQED and Channel 16, WQEX. WQEX broadcasted in all black and white until their 1953 vintage transmitter died in 1986 so in Pittsburgh, even as late as 1986, we had a black and white only channel. WQEX was more avant garde, surreal at times but basically it was a black and white only version of a free Brit Box over the air. I used to watch Dr. Who and Black Adder on it. I felt like I was in 1953. ;)
I honestly miss pre 2015 boomerang. 2010-2014 NICKTOONS network (before they turned it into Henry danger channel) and 90’s are all that/Nick rewind on teen Nick that block put me on to Kenan and kel and hey arnold since I didn’t get to watch it when it premiere because I wasn’t born
@@ArtieRaccoonReviews Me too! Nothing but the classics on Boomerang from 2000 to 2015. Also their Christmas block was awesome! I loved hearing a specific version of Jingle Bells in the bumpers with those elves. And watching the classic Christmas cartoons! :)
TH-cam used to be excellent until the first 2016 Adpocolypse, then it was downhill from there. The censorship is out of control and people censor very basic and inoffensive words like "kill" and "bomb" and it is absurd.
No we don't, it's nowhere close, cable would put on at least two ad breaks, each at least three minutes long for just a half hour show. I'll happily take TH-cam occasionally putting on two 20 second ads (they are usually shorter than that) over those cable ads. And if you watched a movie that was over two hours it would have over an hour of just ads in it. I remember DVRing the Harry Potter movies and I couldn't believe how many ads I had to fast forward through. I'm glad I had a DVR as I couldn't stand to watch much stuff live on cable even as a kid.
I'm actually glad to see cable TV dead! The cord was FINALLY cut in our household back in 2022. It's too expensive, there's nothing to watch and the annoying commercials go on forever! >:(
Sling TV actually let’s you choose your channels. Just choose the orange or blue plan and choose other channels like Disney XD or FXX. People should just convert to that.
That's a way better business model. Also instead of cable providers, you should be able to watch the channels directly from the companies that own them. It might be against antitrust laws but who cares?
If you live in a valley area over the air antenna TV is garbage. My area, if your lucky, you get a weak CBS or METV. Nothing else and to top it off the repeaters ota uses, guess who runs em, xfinity. Cable is the only way to get a clear picture anymore, safely.
This is why ATSC 3.0 needs to roll out, there is too many structures and natural obstacles interrupting the signal. The only problem with this is companies like Nexstar are taking advantage of this in a nasty way by DRM encrypting their channels.
I had xfinity cable and internet from 2021 to beginning of 2024. The monthly fees was getting ridiculous almost 200 a month. I cut the cable but still have xfinity internet at a much lesser price. I stick with streaming that is more convenient. Hopefully cable services will end and become obsolete!
@@ArtieRaccoonReviews I know right. It’s such a shame that these cable companies do that. I was also mad that comcast xfinity wasn’t airing Cartoon Network for their own dumb petty reasons.
@@ArtieRaccoonReviews Pirated TV that basically gets you TV Networks from all over the world Its like cable, except more or less utilzing streams the xc in xciptv stands for xstream code
Ya know what mostly sucks? Streaming! Because I get easily offended by swearing since most shows like on Max & Netflix are for adults! And I can’t find an actual good kids show without an annoying trend of girls as main characters!!!!!!! such as Hilda!!!!!!
Yeah, especially when they all got rid of Weatherscan. I for some reason still like cable idk.
Weatherscan was awesome
It took my parents over a week to cancel our Direct TV subscription they kept bouncing us around, putting us on hold and refusing to cancel it. With streaming you just need to click few buttons.
I might actually make a part 2 for this video with how problematic cable is and the cable companies intentionally make it difficult to cancel your cable subscription so you give up.
Another example that Teenick airs nothing but Henry Danger 24/7!
True
And they used to show AFV every night.
@@mtgau2000 I remember
Cartoon Network 2.0
@@petercarrillo2290actually CN doesn’t air the same show 24hrs a day
I remember when I was little, Mom said when we get our first color TV, we are getting cable. I lived just west of Pittsburgh near the airport in a flight path and airplanes flying in would cause the picture to flutter on the 1959
Philco. We got color in 1971 and cable where it was like $7 a month. Back then you got all Pittsburgh channels plus some from Youngstown, Wheeling, Steubenville and Johnstown. We had the Air Force Reserve at that time where they flew in the old C-124 Globemaster II with piston engines, those were murder on OTA TV.
$7 a month for cable TV in the early 70s?!
@@ArtieRaccoonReviews Yeah , I remember seeing a bill from 1971 and it was like $7 and some change and for a few dollars extra, they had cable FM for your FM stereo. I lived in Moon Township and the Coraopolis area west on Pittsburgh near the airport and cable was becoming popular because of the planes flying around like the 1940's era C124 piston engined monster planes and the F-102 interceptors. As I said before, the only outside channels we received was the adjacent markets plus we did have a local weather channel as well where it was a basic camera setup on a rack where it moved back and forth across the gauges for temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, etc and it was only black and white. I remember 1978 was a big year, we got Superstation WOR out of New York City and HBO in June of that year. I remember watching my first HBO movie, Marathon Man, with Dustin Hoffman. By 1980/81, we started to get MTV, USA Network, CNN, Cinemax, Nickelodeon, A&E and a could of others. If you had the 8 channel box, you were in fat city. I remember many a late night where if I stayed at my buddy's house, we'd sneak down to watch the bold rated "R" movies where they were getting close to "X" rated, we used to call Cinemax, "Skin--a-Msx." We also enjoyed Benny Hill on Cinemax and WOR as well. HBO went off the air around Midnight until 1981/82 IIRC.
Our cable company was local, it was called "Astrovision" which was founded in 1966, again, it was a huge deal because of all the airline traffic. WE got it in 1971 when we got color. A local family owned it, I graduated with one of them in 1985. They sold the company to New CHannels, out of North Carolina, about 1984/85 maybe, it is a little murky but I remember I was in high school. In the early 1990's they sold out to Time Warner. We went to Florida to see my relatives in 1999 and over the two weeks we were gone, Time WArner sold out to TCI and TCI sould out to Verizon where it is now. When we got back home, Mom and I thought, WTF? Another local company up in the Western PA area was Adelphia, they were in Altoona PA IIRC.
BTW, a side note about Pittsburgh OTA channels then, we had two PBS stations, Channel 13, WQED and Channel 16, WQEX. WQEX broadcasted in all black and white until their 1953 vintage transmitter died in 1986 so in Pittsburgh, even as late as 1986, we had a black and white only channel. WQEX was more avant garde, surreal at times but basically it was a black and white only version of a free Brit Box over the air. I used to watch Dr. Who and Black Adder on it. I felt like I was in 1953. ;)
Disney Channel nick Jr. Cartoon network nickelodeon and PBS Kids was the Shits back in the Day
I honestly miss pre 2015 boomerang. 2010-2014 NICKTOONS network (before they turned it into Henry danger channel) and 90’s are all that/Nick rewind on teen Nick that block put me on to Kenan and kel and hey arnold since I didn’t get to watch it when it premiere because I wasn’t born
I miss the old Boomerang, nowadays they are basically a second Cartoon Network.
@@ArtieRaccoonReviews Me too! Nothing but the classics on Boomerang from 2000 to 2015.
Also their Christmas block was awesome! I loved hearing a specific version of Jingle Bells in the bumpers with those elves. And watching the classic Christmas cartoons! :)
Something about the old xfinity tv guide and the weatherscan channel just hits right, like windows 7 does, or older ios and android versions
Agreed
So underated
Thank you
Idk i think i get as many (if not more) ads on youtube as i do on cable. In both cases the content is censored and 90% trash.
TH-cam used to be excellent until the first 2016 Adpocolypse, then it was downhill from there. The censorship is out of control and people censor very basic and inoffensive words like "kill" and "bomb" and it is absurd.
No we don't, it's nowhere close, cable would put on at least two ad breaks, each at least three minutes long for just a half hour show. I'll happily take TH-cam occasionally putting on two 20 second ads (they are usually shorter than that) over those cable ads. And if you watched a movie that was over two hours it would have over an hour of just ads in it.
I remember DVRing the Harry Potter movies and I couldn't believe how many ads I had to fast forward through. I'm glad I had a DVR as I couldn't stand to watch much stuff live on cable even as a kid.
Agreed I prefer over the air TV then cable, too bad we only have like 12 channels in our area when I scanned them
the only media market i can think of that has only 12 channels is the zanesville market
u live near zanesville?
@@vexohaitianbridgette8502 no Greenville MS
No, Greenville MS (DON’T DELETE THIS COMMENT TH-cam)
@@vexohaitianbridgette8502 no
I'm actually glad to see cable TV dead! The cord was FINALLY cut in our household back in 2022.
It's too expensive, there's nothing to watch and the annoying commercials go on forever! >:(
Sling TV actually let’s you choose your channels. Just choose the orange or blue plan and choose other channels like Disney XD or FXX. People should just convert to that.
That's a way better business model. Also instead of cable providers, you should be able to watch the channels directly from the companies that own them. It might be against antitrust laws but who cares?
If you live in a valley area over the air antenna TV is garbage. My area, if your lucky, you get a weak CBS or METV. Nothing else and to top it off the repeaters ota uses, guess who runs em, xfinity. Cable is the only way to get a clear picture anymore, safely.
This is why ATSC 3.0 needs to roll out, there is too many structures and natural obstacles interrupting the signal. The only problem with this is companies like Nexstar are taking advantage of this in a nasty way by DRM encrypting their channels.
I had xfinity cable and internet from 2021 to beginning of 2024. The monthly fees was getting ridiculous almost 200 a month. I cut the cable but still have xfinity internet at a much lesser price. I stick with streaming that is more convenient. Hopefully cable services will end and become obsolete!
Cable should be $60 like it was back in the day, $200 is a literal scam
@@ArtieRaccoonReviews I know right. It’s such a shame that these cable companies do that. I was also mad that comcast xfinity wasn’t airing Cartoon Network for their own dumb petty reasons.
Some of the best cable channels are those not owned by the Paramount's, Comcast's, etc. of the world including RFD-TV
Honestly we only watch like 6 or 5 channels and mtv is the ridiculousness channel lol
Boomers only watch either hallmark or fox news
And the INSP channel
im glad i got xciptv
What is that?
@@ArtieRaccoonReviews Pirated TV that basically gets you TV Networks from all over the world
Its like cable, except more or less utilzing streams
the xc in xciptv stands for xstream code
Nick jr is called PPTV
Nick@Nite is the new WB
and Nick is PPMTV
And TeenNick is HD/DFTV
Ya know what mostly sucks? Streaming! Because I get easily offended by swearing since most shows like on Max & Netflix are for adults! And I can’t find an actual good kids show without an annoying trend of girls as main characters!!!!!!! such as Hilda!!!!!!
Okay I guess?