subject: Premium Movie Channels How Many Are Enough [print this page] Ill start out by admitting that, when it comes to TV home entertainment packages from my programming provider, I dont know how to say Stop. The Basic Package is still not good enough for me. Simple upgrade more channels still doesnt satisfy me. I want and need more.
Yes, Im one of those subscribers to at-home programming that has to get the best of the best, The Gold package, if that is what it is actually called. That means I get access to more networks than I actually want or could ever watch more shopping channels that I never watch more foreign language channels that I cant watch (because I dont understand the language) and more premium channels.
It is the Premium Channels that made me go for the gold in the first place. So now, when I turn on my TV, I have several stations playing feature length films without commercial interruption for The Movie Channel for HBO (Home Box Office) for Showtime for the Starz Network you get the idea.
There are probably thirty to forty movie channels included in my package, all of which present programming 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week. I like having that access, but the truth is that I cant watch more than one movie at a time and, moreover, I dont watch films nearly enough to justify the extra monthly expense that shows up on my invoice from my programming provider.
I suppose Im like a kid in a candy store, in that if I see it, I want it. And now, Ive got it an actual embarrassment of riches far more channels than I am capable of watching too many channels about which I care little or not at all and yet, I cant give them up.
I enjoy knowing that, when I channel-surf, I can go on and on and on until I find something that appeals to me. Of course, I also know that what appeals to me can be found in a handful of channels that I watch most of the time.
No matter. I live in the 21st Century and I want to take advantage of it. That means I want to retain access to every network and every channel in existence. It doesnt really matter that I only watch the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) network for the old movies that I really like.
Im a modern TV viewer and, like almost everybody else, I want it all.
