Television Relocation

[bjarvis]

We've had Bell ExpressVu, the Canadian direct TV satellite service, for years but we had the receiver attached to the main television in the living room. Not a bad thing except that Kent tends to monopolize that set. There are a number of shows from Canada I'd prefer to see rather than the local cable offerings, especially the National, the 10 PM CBC news program.

After some effort and re-threading of cables, we've moved the Bell receiver to the basement TV in line-of-site from my computer room. Kent can watch the drek he prefers upstairs while I expand my knowledge with life-enriching programming from the Dominion of Canada. Or, as Kent tells it, I can now watch "The Simpsons" from five different time zones instead of being restricted to EST.

And I can make my sci-fi friends jealous by watching the new "Dr. Who" series from broadcast instead of downloaded bitstreams from the Internet. :-)

Now to ditch Comcast entirely to go with DirectTV...

Comments

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

It's too bad the US bought Peter Jennings rather than Peter Mansbridge. :-) Is he still going strong?

And the legalities of satellite TV have always been an amusing sideshow, with millions of Canadians bootlegging into US services (illegal in Canada for lack of required CanCon.) By reciprocity I suppose Expressvu ought to be illegal in the US. Snort. :-)