October 13 Directv appt.

[Metatron]

Well um, I have another appt. with Directv. Gonna install for the 4th and 5th rooms.

This makes:

1 bedroom with 1080i
2 guest bedrooms with 720p in one and 480p in another
1080i living room
1080i dining room

1 hddvr hr21, 2 hd21s, 1 hd20, and 1 hd10.

I live in a 2 story house with a basement, over the air reception is poor, I hate local channels, and I mainly watch discovery and movies.

The tvs, sets, and stuff are in the bedrooms of the house, the living room home theater, and dining room, which is a hd10, only picks up mpeg 2 signals, and is for watching hoilday specials.

Now I could've not gotten two of the sets, not put anything in guest rooms except over the air, but considering our reception is bad, I'd consider it rude to stick a guest in a room with 0 working channels and tell them they have tv.

I dunno how anyone could say I watch too much tv, when over half of the directv sets are for guests or for holday parties...

So what do you think?

 

[Frank Booth]

Overkill? You watch too much TV dude. Unplug and see how much better nature can be.

 

[Metatron]

Heh, I knew someone would answer like that

I hardly watch tv. The living room is where the main set is, most of the time the 3 bedroom sets aren't in use.

The dining room is a "special occasions" tv.

Now the real deal is, we get horribly bad reception for over the air. It's basically a neccesary evil, as I have two digital to analog converter boxes, 1 is useless because only the kitchen gets good reception.

Either way though, now I can basically have discovery hd when I eat, instead of news or crap reality shows, so I'm happy.

The main deal is this: I watch tv for intelligent shows, and movies.

It's either pay for directv, or go to theaters (and then your talking Atlanta theaters >_<), or get blu-ray.

Getting hbo, showtine, cinemax, and starz and having hundreds of movies to chose from is a better deal then theaters.

Then your talking intelligent shows. No local station except pbs is even close to intelligent with that pile of crap they run every day called 'reality shows'.

I'd honesty pay for directv so I can watch discovery channels then pay for years of counseling due to losing my mind at the rancid reality shows.

I tried a over the air digital to analog converter for the dining room. If I was lucky, 1 channel would show up, and it was usually 'judge judy', or some reality crap, or news, which is all pathetic and boring and annoys the hell out of me.

At 4.99 a month, I now get discovery channels when I eat.

If you wanna say I'm addicted to anything, it's Discovery channels. I got directv this year after not having satelitte or cable since 1992. There's nothing more impressive then seeing discovery in hd after those years of news or reality shows that putrid local stations try to make you watch.

Now, keeping in mind I watch movies and discovery only, please judge my 5 rooms with 5 high def receivers that way. Keep in mind all I said above. BTW, maybe I should mention I live in a 2 story house with a basement, and the house has 4 bedrooms.