Comments on: Scifi Channel Becomes Syfy Channel http://scifiwatch.net/scificom-channel-becomes-syfycom/ A Blog for all things Sci-fi Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Amanda http://scifiwatch.net/scificom-channel-becomes-syfycom/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Amanda Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:07:30 +0000 http://scifiwatch.net/?p=1732#comment-437 The thing is we need to be subscribing and I mean literally subscribing to the channel. Much like that of HBO etc. That way you have no commercials like the original promise of pay tv in the first place. Look at it this way maybe someone else will make another SCI-FI channel after the one now has changed to SYFY "siffy" and actually keep with the programming of the people that love sf The thing is we need to be subscribing and I mean literally subscribing to the channel. Much like that of HBO etc. That way you have no commercials like the original promise of pay tv in the first place. Look at it this way maybe someone else will make another SCI-FI channel after the one now has changed to SYFY “siffy” and actually keep with the programming of the people that love sf

]]> By: Cephus http://scifiwatch.net/scificom-channel-becomes-syfycom/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Cephus Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:02:25 +0000 http://scifiwatch.net/?p=1732#comment-438 The real issue is that SciFi hasn't been about SciFi for a long, long time. It's about cheap entertainment that caters to the lowest common denominator and under Bonnie Hammer added an endless array of garbage bargain-basement-budget movies, wrestling and NBC reruns. It stopped being a channel for anyone who cared about science fiction long ago and I'll admit that while I used to leave that channel on for the vast majority of my television viewing, now... I can't remember the last time I actually tuned in. Between all the pseudo-scientific "reality" show nonsense and the WWE spandex-clad bad acting, there's simply no reason to pay any attention to the network. If I was paying for the next level of cable programming just for that channel, as I once did, I'd have canceled by now. I have yet to find anyone who thinks this is a good idea and no end to the people who are basically writing "SyFy" off forever. Farewell SciFi, and good riddance. The real issue is that SciFi hasn’t been about SciFi for a long, long time. It’s about cheap entertainment that caters to the lowest common denominator and under Bonnie Hammer added an endless array of garbage bargain-basement-budget movies, wrestling and NBC reruns. It stopped being a channel for anyone who cared about science fiction long ago and I’ll admit that while I used to leave that channel on for the vast majority of my television viewing, now… I can’t remember the last time I actually tuned in. Between all the pseudo-scientific “reality” show nonsense and the WWE spandex-clad bad acting, there’s simply no reason to pay any attention to the network. If I was paying for the next level of cable programming just for that channel, as I once did, I’d have canceled by now.

I have yet to find anyone who thinks this is a good idea and no end to the people who are basically writing “SyFy” off forever. Farewell SciFi, and good riddance.

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