As a cable-TV consumer it seems only fair to me that I should be able to watch open TV anytime the programming selection I have paid for fails to provide me with something I feel like watching. Unfortunately, lately this has been an ever more frequent occurence. I often feel like my pay-TV provider is playing me for a chump, for the vast majority of filmes offered are of B quality, good neuron-stimulating filmes are as rare as monkeys in Alaska and when they do appear, hardly ever repeat, while the few blockbusters available are repeated to exhaustion. Also, I do not recall ever having agreed in my contract to be subjected to so many commercials in such everlastingly long station breaks. Speaking of commercials, there ought to be a law against carriers turning up the volume in their transmissions of commercials. This nasty habit is aggressive to consumers and we who are not stoopid or hearing impaired are weary of being treated as though we were both. I am anxious for the promised future days of pure On Demand programming, that will free me from the need to channel hop all over the place looking for something worth watching as I wear out my mute button in a futile attempt to escape getting blasted by excess decibels. Back to the Dual Carraige law, you guys had better make it stick, because the way things are going, its a toss-up whether that \"something worth watching\" will be on Pay or Open TV.

As a cable-TV consumer it seems only fair to me that I should be able to watch open TV anytime the programming selection I have paid for fails to provide me with something I feel like watching. Unfortunately, lately this has been an ever more frequent occurence. I often feel like my pay-TV provider is playing me for a chump, for the vast majority of filmes offered are of B quality, good neuron-stimulating filmes are as rare as monkeys in Alaska and when they do appear, hardly ever repeat, while the few blockbusters available are repeated to exhaustion. Also, I do not recall ever having agreed in my contract to be subjected to so many commercials in such everlastingly long station breaks. Speaking of commercials, there ought to be a law against carriers turning up the volume in their transmissions of commercials. This nasty habit is aggressive to consumers and we who are not stoopid or hearing impaired are weary of being treated as though we were both. I am anxious for the promised future days of pure On Demand programming, that will free me from the need to channel hop all over the place looking for something worth watching as I wear out my mute button in a futile attempt to escape getting blasted by excess decibels. Back to the Dual Carraige law, you guys had better make it stick, because the way things are going, its a toss-up whether that "something worth watching" will be on Pay or Open TV.