Patrick Elliott wrote:

> Hate to tell you, but with some exceptions, most of those channels 
> **did** exists, you just had to be bloody stinking rich, or have an 
> illegal satellite unit, to watch them. Most of the stuff added *since* 
> have been duplicates. I.e., 4 different ESPN ones, instead of 1, 3-4 
> different ones for every movie broadcaster, instead of just 1 (or 2 in 
> some cases), Disney used to have 1, now its 3, at least, etc. Heck, you 
> can find ABC, CBS, NBS, etc. on 3-4 channels now, where they all only 
> had *one* previously. Then.. with digital you now have about 5% of them 
> with specialized HD versions.
> 
> Nope. What is on the cable line up today is pretty much what was there 
> 10-15 years ago, if you where in a large city, with the exception of 
> maybe less than a half dozen added since. The only major difference is 
> that now you a) have them all bundled as packages, so you can't pick the 
> ones you want, instead of buying the whole mess of crap with it, and b) 
> you can get more of them, in places you would be lucky to get 10 
> channels 15 years back.

Out of curiosity, which country do you live in?

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