And the pixel you rode in on.
Jan. 1st, 2010 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offbalanceThe Good: There's a Buffy marathon on Logo, which will be running the show regularly now. Buffy is back on tv, which warms me inside.
The Bad: I no longer have the Food network, because Ghettovision continues to be run by cheap motherfuckers who don't know how to cough up for a good thing. It's bad enough I don't have BBC America, or have to pay a lot extra for IFC, now I'm also deprived some of the best background noise available. Oh, and Alton Brown! New season of Good Eats is ready to go in days, and the cheap-ass Dolans won't caugh up for the most popular networks around. And! To make matters even more lulzy, they're blaming it all on Scripps, saying that network is having financial difficulties. Uh, no. The opposite, actually. They're just charging what they believe their channels are worth, and knowing what I know about the owners of Cablevision? They wanted to pay tin prices for gold.
After all, this is the cable network that, after the YES network was introduced, refused to make a deal with the Yankees for it. And stood scratching its head while subscribers switched to Direct TV and DISH network in droves. Per family legend, after it was announced that Cablevision (which we had at the time) would NOT be carrying YES, my tv-hating mom looked at my dad and said, "Are you really going to put up with this shit?" He called Direct TV and set up an appointment not long after.
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redesigner, in his ever-so-brilliant thesis, talked about how the future of tv, particularly cable tv, involved a-la-carte packages, where you select what you want, you pay for it, and that's that. I kind of wish we were there already - I have hundreds - hundreds! - of channels I don't watch and will never watch (including 7 religion-themed ones, ones in languages I don't speak, and tons of kid-themed ones I have no use for.) I kind of wish the future was now in that respect. If you've ever had a salad from a Midtown deli, it'd be the same idea. You pay a base price for the salad. Then, depending on where you go, you either get a certain number of premium ingredients (meats, fancy cheese, etc.), or you pay per what you want. Then, you get up to a certain number of less-than-premium ingredients (carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.), or as many as you want to pick. I don't get why the salad method wouldn't work here. Except, of course. I forgot. Corporate greed. It's what makes our country great! *eyeroll*
Be back in a bit with my 2009 recap.
The Bad: I no longer have the Food network, because Ghettovision continues to be run by cheap motherfuckers who don't know how to cough up for a good thing. It's bad enough I don't have BBC America, or have to pay a lot extra for IFC, now I'm also deprived some of the best background noise available. Oh, and Alton Brown! New season of Good Eats is ready to go in days, and the cheap-ass Dolans won't caugh up for the most popular networks around. And! To make matters even more lulzy, they're blaming it all on Scripps, saying that network is having financial difficulties. Uh, no. The opposite, actually. They're just charging what they believe their channels are worth, and knowing what I know about the owners of Cablevision? They wanted to pay tin prices for gold.
After all, this is the cable network that, after the YES network was introduced, refused to make a deal with the Yankees for it. And stood scratching its head while subscribers switched to Direct TV and DISH network in droves. Per family legend, after it was announced that Cablevision (which we had at the time) would NOT be carrying YES, my tv-hating mom looked at my dad and said, "Are you really going to put up with this shit?" He called Direct TV and set up an appointment not long after.
redesigner, in his ever-so-brilliant thesis, talked about how the future of tv, particularly cable tv, involved a-la-carte packages, where you select what you want, you pay for it, and that's that. I kind of wish we were there already - I have hundreds - hundreds! - of channels I don't watch and will never watch (including 7 religion-themed ones, ones in languages I don't speak, and tons of kid-themed ones I have no use for.) I kind of wish the future was now in that respect. If you've ever had a salad from a Midtown deli, it'd be the same idea. You pay a base price for the salad. Then, depending on where you go, you either get a certain number of premium ingredients (meats, fancy cheese, etc.), or you pay per what you want. Then, you get up to a certain number of less-than-premium ingredients (carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.), or as many as you want to pick. I don't get why the salad method wouldn't work here. Except, of course. I forgot. Corporate greed. It's what makes our country great! *eyeroll*Be back in a bit with my 2009 recap.
