540 channels

welcome to the beautiful world of digital satellite television. before i sold my satellite receiver pci card on ebay a year ago, i recall receiving appr. 300 channels. well, that number has almost multiplied within one year, because now we are holding at 540 channels! that is almost too much, i hardly manage to watch a handful of channels, usually channel-surfing between the various music channels to avoid the commericals. the most useless channels i have discovered so far: Bahn TV (apparently about trains), Bibel TV and the GOD channel (the name says all) and the Spielekanal (airs presumably an interactive gameshows). i think these are yet other reasons not to watch television…