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I have 3 channels in english.... and 34234029348 spanish channels. If i want |
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to switch from CBS to NBC i have to go outside to turn my yagi : (. |
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On 8/4/05, Sami Samhuri <sami@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> * On Thu Aug-04-2005 at 02:28:21 AM +0000, Luke-Jr said: |
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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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> > > > I find it extremely entertaining that you (apparently) have Cox |
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> cable |
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> > > > internet, and yet you have no TV to speak of. More power to you. |
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> > > |
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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, |
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> 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 |
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> you |
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> > prefer the assumption ;) |
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> I've never looked into legally downloadable content. Do many producers |
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> do that yet? |
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> I have to say, as soon as they start mass-producing 5TB disks and I can |
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> put 6 of those in a slick HTPC, I'm going to archive my movie collection |
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> as well (music is archived, CD's are just for the discman now). If they |
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> started selling downloadable DVDs I would buy those and burn the backup |
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> discs myself. |
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> I think this is getting a little too OT. Sorry list. :) |
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> Sami Samhuri |
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chicken goes cluck cluck, cow goes moo, leamer goes phh phh how bout you? |
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