Actually, I do check to see what is on all of the channels and I find myself watching channels in the extra packages more than the local channels. I spend more time watching foreign films, documentaries, science programs, BBC, and sports during nfl and ncaa...

Until a couple of months ago I could care less about high definition. My tv died and I decided to go ahead and get a new one. I went for an HDTV and have not regretted it. I have another tv in my daughter's room and there is a huge difference. You don't notice it until you get accustomed to the clarify of HDTV. Still, when digital is the norm and there are a lot more HDTV programs available, that is when it will be worth it.



>>I really think you should forward your comments to Obama (those were his statements, not mine I quoted). I think most will go over really well except for 30% or our entertainment being South korean movies (for a fair free trade agreement there), of course what happens when no one buys or rents them? I guess they go back into the foreign film section?
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>I didn't say "Korean movies", I said "foreign movies", just to remind that the imbalance in other areas exists. That nobody ever mentions this imbalance doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Somehow the idea that how much of foreign culture is imported here doesn't seem to be something the government should decide, but it seems to be OK, as an idea, to suggest that South Korea's government should ensure that South Koreans start buying US made vehicles. Well, maybe, I don't know - I've never been a government - but I figure it should then cut both ways.
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>>By the way, don't you get foreign films on your satellite or cable tv system? I have many channels that are nothing but foreign films and on demand foreign films from numerous countries. That's how I watch mine - much more convenient. Although I must admit I've only watched a couple of Korean movies - I don't enjoy them as much as the ones from India or France and a few other countries. I watch a lot of movies from Central and South American countries.
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>We started from the sample 60 channels we got when we had no choice, then had a sample of 200 channels we had for a while, and having reconsidered the cost vs value, went all the way to the rich offer of $9/mo, which is just enough for what use we find for cable TV: to get bad weather alerts, and maybe 2-3 hours a week of CSI (LV and NY, not Miami) and sometimes L&O and few bits on PBS, that's it.
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>Nobody's watching 200 channels.