Yeah but 200+ channels of what? Shop at home crap doesn't count nor does about half the time for advertising for pills, ambulance chasers and all the other crap from China for 19.99. Reality TV doesn't do it for me either and while sports and children's programming may be important to some it's worthless to me. What do junkyard pickers and pawn shops have to do with history anyway? The movies are the same over and over again while most are not worth watching even once. Talk about a pig in a poke, all those channels is exactly that if you ask me. I'd be happy to get at least six that are worth watching. IMHO we were better off way back when we only had three networks. The news was news and informative and not social commentary or attempts at social engineering the country while the advertizing, what there was of it, was much more limited and more entertaining than it is today. In fact the news broadcasts cost the networks and they did the news as a public service. I would not qualify what CNN, MSNBC, and most of the others put out as news. Watch 30 minutes of Fox and you have all they are going to say for the next 24 to 48 hours only with different talking heads saying the same thing and covering exactly the same stuff. There is obviously a lot more going on than what these clowns are putting out.