Vzzzbx & Mike Beckham: Foxtel may have two or three decent shows but a moderate broadband plan runs about half that of the basic-extremis Foxtel package where you can get those before Foxtel does and still have bandwidth left over to explore everything else out there. And that's way before you find you have to pay for the ultra-platinum package to get the channels that have the decent shows. Otherwise, as Vzzzbx says, you're left with old rope stuck on repeat, rolling out Doris Day like she's the hottest thing in a twin set, or sitting semi-comatose in front of something random on Discovery or NatGeo channels or _another_ Hitler doco on the history channel.

From the very outset, with pay TV in this country, I could not believe that subscribers are expected to pay to watch that type of programming and then have to sit through the ads as well. It doesn't matter how often their marketers send me media releases, making another variation on the same claim – that viewers are loving it all and almost everyone has pay TV now – I can still look at real figures and see for myself that the tsunami of new subscribers isn't happening. In some countries, claims without any basis in fact are actually frowned upon through legislation covering deceptive trade practices but it seems we're not lucky enough to have anything like that prosecuted.

As for Go!, I tried to give a heads up with the observation that the shmick promos were using stretched vision and I didn't expect anything more than what we have programmed there. At least the separate signal has been turned on now and there's somewhere for the decent shows to go, after the main channel axes them after two episodes. Perhaps they'll even see it as an opportunity to try out some new, innovative local content – especially if they can pick up some local points for it.