I can get maybe 100 channels... and sure, most of them are either crap or useless to ME. However, my system has an interface using the remote that has 3 lists of channels-- one, the default, lists everything. But then *I* can make 2 other lists of 'favorites' of two different types, and choose that list to show on screen. One of them has only a couple of news channels and several nature..etc.. channels. The other has a music channel and C-Span and a couple of local channels that I look at 'now & then'.

Ya' know, a lot of the items in your grocery store are crap, too... but ya' don't have to buy 'em,