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Post by mllemass on May 5, 2018 12:54:34 GMT
I went as far as looking it up last night. I'm already paying for cable and Netflix, so I definitely don't want to pay for more! I thought Crave would be like Netflix, which gives you a free trial period of one month. But the way Crave words it - "The first month is on us" - I think means you have to pay for at least a second month to get the first for free.
I'm going to keep thinking about it!
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Post by roverpup on May 5, 2018 15:50:04 GMT
Well as I said I don’t have cable so getting Crave and Netflix still is less expensive than paying for cable (we were on Cogeco and paid through the nose (about $70/month for even basic cable - most of it which we rarely watched except for the sports and news). We signed up for the 12 month subscription and got 3 free months (so our cost comes out to be about $6 CDN per month). I think Netflix is about $12/month (because we get the HD version) so with those two streaming services it is a real savings!! To tell you the truth we don’t miss cable at all and we get a lot better programming I think (at least it’s the stuff we are interested in). Now we get the hockey through a CBC app on the internet (and that is the only sport I care about) and the news off of the internet too - so we are covered.
Even getting the delux high speed internet (with TONS of capacity so we never reach our limit!) and paying for Netflix and CraveTV is still way cheaper than getting the cable package we were forced into getting (because we wanted to see things like some of the specialty channels) and our household internet (which we were always getting limit warnings and having to ration our usage at the end of the month). And we have experienced how delightful it is to watch film/TV from Europe and other places that we never could have watched if we were just on cable.
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Post by mllemass on May 5, 2018 16:16:13 GMT
I have Cogeco and yes, it's expensive! But I can't imagine not having it.
I still remember way back when our family didn't have cable, and I don't want to live like that ever again! Ha! It was around the time I started high school that we finally got a colour tv and my father decided to splurge and let us get cable, too. Until then, I had to find creative ways to be at my friend's house when shows like Happy Days were on, or I would never have seen them. So I just happened to have "projects" every Tuesday that my friend and I needed to work on together.
I had to get unlimited internet when I got Netflix because I kept going over my limit (it was all that Sherlock watching!). I could have just cut down on my internet use, but we all knew that was not going to happen.
I know that $7 or so a month for Crave isn't a huge expense, so I'm still thinking about it.
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Post by roverpup on May 5, 2018 16:57:19 GMT
Going over to the neighbours house! LOL! I remember when I was a little kid and my parents didn’t allow us to watch TV except on the weekends (and even then only after dinner - so we watched what the adults watched - Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Ed Sullivan and The Wonderful World of Disney, etc.), so I “creatively” thought up a solution to watch morning cartoons - I just walked into our neighbour’s house when they were still all sleeping in the morning and sat down in their living room and started watching their TV! (No one locked their doors back in the late 50s and early 60s).
When they came down for breakfast - there I was sitting on the floor watching the cartoons. Needless to say I was dealt with by my parents soon after and lectured about “invading” other people’s homes!!! This “ban” on watching TV during the week and during the day on weekends extended right up until I left home, so I just never got into the habit of watching a great deal of TV and I was soooooo happy that Star Trek was finally moved to an “approved” time (on a Friday night) so I could know what all the other high school kids were so excited about when it came to Mr. Spock!!!!
Funny thing is my mother was a big fan of Star Trek and she would tape the audio portion of it on our little tape recorder so my sis and I could listen to the dialogue (like when we were working in the fields in the summer) BUT SHE WOULDN’T LET US WATCH IT WITH HER! Even to this day I can still “hear” every line of dialogue of those shows she taped for us - I must have listened to those tapes a million times!!!
When I finally left school and got a job my mum still didn’t like the idea of me watching TV after dinner. I was a reporter back then, and I would come home after working all day (and sometimes into the night if I had to cover meetings) and try to sit down and watch some TV and my mum would say “Don’t you have some homework to do???” LOL!! Some habits die hard!!! But now I am really glad she didn’t allow us to watch TV... not at the time though!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2018 2:14:15 GMT
Another great Showtime ad:
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Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2018 2:27:11 GMT
And another one!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 6, 2018 3:13:19 GMT
Yes, another one and it’s better and longer:
I just rewatched the original trailer which I always liked even when I had read the books beforehand and I knew it was very light compared to the source material/themes and that some people could wrongly thought it was a romantic comedy or a quirky dramedy; That the series itself would be much darker but even knowing all that I’m still surprised how harrowing it is compared to the trailer! It’s almost misleading advertising! Some of the happy funny bits there are actually pretty tragic within the context (he “playing” with his kid in the pool, he singing while driving, etc.). The rest I already knew from the books that they were actually tragic!
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Post by onebluestocking on Jun 6, 2018 4:28:03 GMT
That's funny! When I was little, I was allowed to watch three TV shows: Sesame Street, The Wonderful World of Disney and Masterpiece Theatre. Then by the time I was 8 or 9 years old, my parents got rid of our TV altogether so I only saw any shows at friends' houses.
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Post by mllemass on Jun 6, 2018 7:38:28 GMT
The tv was always on in our house after dinner in the evening. Even before we got a colour tv and cable, we sat as a family and watched our one tv - usually something boring of my father's choosing. We had to get permission to have the tv on any other time. I have a cousin who would wake up extra early every morning to watch a couple of hours of cartoons before school! But then his family watched tv during meals, too, which was never allowed at my house.
I've mentioned this before - I had a friend whose parents were writers of history textbooks and whose father was a university professor. The only tv that was allowed in their house was the news and The Wonderful World of Disney. They were expected to spend their time reading, instead. But the only books my friend ever read were Harlequin Romances! She hated reading. On the other hand, my mother actually discouraged us from reading! I still remember reading in front of the tv, and quickly hiding my book between the cushions of the couch when my mother walked by - "No, I'm not reading! I'm just sitting here watching tv." When I got to high school, I convinced her that all that reading was for school, so she reluctantly allowed it. So then she'd catch me reading and say "That had better be for school!" , and I'd lie and say yes, of course it is! I blame this partly on the fact that my older sister rarely ever read, so my reading was considered really weird. And my mother thought I just being lazy and not wanting to do housework, which was so important to her.
It's funny that in recent years my parents have become a bit worried about aging, and their doctor recommended word puzzles and reading to keep their minds sharp. The idea is for them to do something that they don't normally do in order to exercise other parts of the brain. I guess that's a pretty good suggestion for all of us!
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Post by ellie on Jun 6, 2018 8:22:43 GMT
Different parenting styles are always interesting. I’m an only child of liberal parents who allowed me to stay up as long as I liked and watch whatever I wanted to on TV. Their only strict rules were good manners, good table manners, always tell the truth and do the right thing and never be a snob. Funny enough even though there were no restrictions on my TV watching I always preferred reading. As did my Dad. My Mum was addicted to crossword puzzles.
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