As a friend of mine from Canada (this may not be the best eg as something like 70% of their stations by law must be canadian channels) said that the channels we have are premium channels and not very often even in NY do u get as many movie, sport, documentary and lifestyle channels in one package without extra costs. So in short we have it kinda good, that said I also think that the SERVICe sucks, but hey as someone said PIRATE signal and thing. Thing is ppl I rem when I had no cable and I started complaining to my parents when my neighbours got cable, now we complain that the cable not good enough. I see a pattern here ppl. When I was younger and had no cable, no gaming rig, no cell phone life was GREAT, I was out in the roads riding my bike, running my neighbourhood and having healthy fun. So hows about we stop complaining about the 'luxuries' of life and how they suck and just do something different to pass that time in a better way!