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On Tuesday 02 August 2005 23:27, Sami Samhuri wrote: |
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> * On Tue Aug-02-2005 at 03:41:42 PM -0400, Matt Randolph said: |
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> > You may be missing out on those few shows that are actually well |
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> > written. On the other hand, it is probably better for your health to |
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> > simply do without TV altogether. |
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> > |
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> > I find it extremely entertaining that you (apparently) have Cox cable |
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> > internet, and yet you have no TV to speak of. More power to you. |
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> I haven't had cable TV in years. I too despise advertisements. Most of |
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> them are insulting at best. My ISP is the local cable provider, Shaw, |
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> and they called me up to offer me $10/month cable television service. |
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> The lady was shocked I didn't have cable, and even more shocked when I |
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> asked why I would want to pay for commercials. (radio is free is it |
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> not? greedy cable companies!) If I had the money for a nice HTPC and |
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> a fine selection of channels then I would probably get cable. However, I |
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> have no desire to sit and channel surf through piles of ads. As you |
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> said, we are missing out on the _few_ shows that are well written. Not |
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> to mention movies. |
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Can always download them... (assuming they're legally downloadable, if you |
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prefer the assumption ;) |
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