Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Pay TV services getting as bad as Commercial TV

Recently while watching Showtime they started advertising their new series Dexter at the bottom of the screen. Is this ABC??? NBC??? What gives. Starz is showing bugs at the bottom with animations like "The holidays are better with Starz". Again...what gives??? Why am I paying $98 a month to put up with this crap??? The reason I pay for these services is I'm so distracted by everything going on at the bottom of my screen, on standard commercial TV, that I can't enjoy the show. As consumers we have allowed this to happen. Are we so stupid we don't know what's coming up next...with our INTERACTIVE tv guide? Who pays for the commercial TV? The advertisers. Do we have to put up with this? NO. By contacting key advertisers, as well as the pay services [Starz, Showtime etc.] and tell them that if they don't stop we'll hit them in the pocket book and cancel, things would turn around very quickly. But as with everything else in today's society most people are busy doing nothing about it. I have sent letters to showtime, starz and HBO. HBO has ceased their voice overs on the credits....THANK YOU! Ever try to send one the pay services an e-mail??? Won't happen, none of them have e-mail contacts, at least that I can find. We need to take action and stop letting these people tell us what and how we watch our OVER PAID FOR SERVICES!!!