Channel Surfing
By allen0187
@allen0187 (59708)
Philippines
April 3, 2016 12:38am CST
Now, before there were remote controls, you had rotary television sets and then push button ones. Plus, you have limited channels so really you can't do much of 'channel surfing' since you are limited to maybe five or maybe six channels and doing so is more taxing since you have to be near the television set to manually switch channels.
That's a lot of hard work!!!
Nowadays, you have cable channels that run up to over one hundred channels and a handy remote control to do your 'work' for you. How convenient is that? Very convenient, let me tell you that!!! So yeah, people nowadays can 'channel surf' more conveniently with all those channels and with the remote control.
Of course, when you hear, 'There's nothing on tv that is good to watch!', that's your cue to start channel surfing. There might be something or someone good to watch in the weather channel.
Nowadays, you have cable channels that run up to over one hundred channels and a handy remote control to do your 'work' for you. How convenient is that? Very convenient, let me tell you that!!! So yeah, people nowadays can 'channel surf' more conveniently with all those channels and with the remote control.
Of course, when you hear, 'There's nothing on tv that is good to watch!', that's your cue to start channel surfing. There might be something or someone good to watch in the weather channel.6 people like this
10 responses
@allen0187 (59708)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
I won't be surprised if that happens soon.
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@toniganzon (77120)
• Philippines
3 Apr 16
In addition, we can now watch several channels in one tv screen. Talk about multi-viewing!
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@allen0187 (59708)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
Multi-viewing. Multi-tasking. Multi-everything!
There can only be one goddess though...
@allen0187 (59708)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
Give people more choices and they will likely ditch everything. Decisions... decisions...
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@lady1993 (27221)
• Philippines
5 Apr 16
@allen0187 yeps, i am quite bad at decision making, i like to live simply 
@allen0187 (59708)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
Really? You're cutting down on channels and you'll still be charged?
Wow! SMH moment for me!
@skysnap (20152)
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4 Apr 16
@allen0187 cutting down channels means i have to customize the package and that means custom package charges will be different.
@allen0187 (59708)
• Philippines
5 Apr 16
@wiLLmaH wow! Black and white?!!! That is a fossil already!
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@wiLLmaH (8801)
• Singapore, Singapore
4 Apr 16
@allen0187 Hey that tv of mine.. the black and white is still ok..Still can use for almost 30 years of existence. haha!
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@allen0187 (59708)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
DVDs are a good option from TV. I agree.
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@LadyDuck (502261)
• Italy
4 Apr 16
@allen0187 There are days that the available programs on TV are so uninteresting that it's good to have some DVDs ready to watch.
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
6 Apr 16
I channel hop a lot and music channels have something if mainstream TV doesn't
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
@PapaBits people these days are not satisfied with watching just or two channels, there's always multiple channels to choice from.
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@iamshane487 (1138)
• Manila, Philippines
4 Apr 16
I've no time to watch television, but even if we have the cable at home,if I have a leisure, I just opt to open the Kapamilya channel.
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@allen0187 (59708)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
Get over a hundred channels but end up watching the same two local channels all the time... smh!!!
@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
3 Apr 16
And that's we call modern technology. My sister have that old tv in her house as a display.
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