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« on: June 05, 2016, 02:46:52 AM »
Nope, not sarcasm. It's something people started doing a few years ago when they didn't want to switch to cable (here it can cost over $100 a month--Comcast seems to have a de facto monopoly) when analogue TV broadcasting supposedly went dark. I read that the govt made a large amount of money selling the airspace or bandwidth or whatever the hell it is that was freed up.
I'm a Luddite in recovery and I really have no idea how it all works. I think you may need a converter box for the new type of plug-in electric antennas to work. I really have no clue.
I have a huge backlog of stuff to watch both in physical format and stuff I find online and most of the new shows have no interest for me. I was watching Penny Dreadful but I've resigned myself to just catching up with it via DVDs from the Library. I have access to a huge media library where I work so when I need a fix, I check that out.
The thing with Me-TV and the other channels of this type--there are several of them, one called Retro and another Decades which is the one that has run the DS 1967 marathons (it always seems to be the same block of shows)--is that they seem to have massive amounts of commercials and in some cases, the shows play stretched-out in fake "letterbox" format. I sometimes do watch the channels when I'm staying with my parents in their retirement home in Fla. My sister tends to binge on these home renovation and real estate shows on the "HG" network so there usually is no time to watch anything else. I can't watch the shows that have been distorted to accommodate the current trend in screens but sometimes, they are shown in proper aspect ratio.
Me-TV does run the "Svengoolie" show, I think. Me-TV may randomly get blocked out by something local, I have been told, and the schedule seems to vary from region to region.
G.
I'm a Luddite in recovery and I really have no idea how it all works. I think you may need a converter box for the new type of plug-in electric antennas to work. I really have no clue.
I have a huge backlog of stuff to watch both in physical format and stuff I find online and most of the new shows have no interest for me. I was watching Penny Dreadful but I've resigned myself to just catching up with it via DVDs from the Library. I have access to a huge media library where I work so when I need a fix, I check that out.
The thing with Me-TV and the other channels of this type--there are several of them, one called Retro and another Decades which is the one that has run the DS 1967 marathons (it always seems to be the same block of shows)--is that they seem to have massive amounts of commercials and in some cases, the shows play stretched-out in fake "letterbox" format. I sometimes do watch the channels when I'm staying with my parents in their retirement home in Fla. My sister tends to binge on these home renovation and real estate shows on the "HG" network so there usually is no time to watch anything else. I can't watch the shows that have been distorted to accommodate the current trend in screens but sometimes, they are shown in proper aspect ratio.
Me-TV does run the "Svengoolie" show, I think. Me-TV may randomly get blocked out by something local, I have been told, and the schedule seems to vary from region to region.
G.