Time Warner has done it now. They have dropped HDNet and HDNet Movies from the high definition tier we pay extra to get. Now we are left with MavTV (“created by men for men” and gods does it suck), MGMHD (old movies), Universal HD (used to be good but has begun sucking), and the Smithsonian Channel.

Though I am sure the new Smithsonian Channel will have programming I would enjoy, I won’t justify paying an extra $7 a month just for that one channel, and I couldn’t care less about the other three. When we first got HDTV, the extra HD tier was a good idea. Most channels weren’t available in HD yet, and for a small amount of money, we got about a dozen channels to enjoy on our new HD television. Now almost all the standard channels are freely available in high definition, and we have the HD versions of all the premium channels we pay for as well. We are longer hurting for high definition programming. Without HDNet and HDMovie, that extra tier is now completely worthless to us. Those were two of our favorite channels, and the only reason we continued paying for the HD tier after they dropped a few other channels we liked from it.

And since we’ll be going to the TW office to cancel that, we might as well tell them to ditch Cinemax as well. Haven’t been watching it, and it usually only has crap on anyway. If the soft porn was at least good, it would be one thing, but it’s not even good soft porn. So Cinemax goes too, and we’ll be saving close to $20 a month on our cable bill.

Until they raise the prices again, of course, which they always seem to do after the take away channels everyone loves and add junk no one wanted, no one likes, and likely costs them next to nothing to get their hands on.

Oh how I wish some competition for Time Warner would come to my neighborhood. I am so sick of being stuck with them if we want high speed internet and cable TV. They do nothing but screw everyone over all the damn time.