The Brain (no TV)

Dec 10, 2006 18:27

I'm thinking about ditching my cable TV again ( Read more... )

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ruthling December 10 2006, 23:59:59 UTC
given your situation, it seems like ditching cable is a win-win for you. you can also get a helluva netflix subscription for that monthly price.

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kyroraz December 11 2006, 00:33:31 UTC
I'd totally ditch cable, it's usually not worth much.

I can't give it up due to my Weather Channel Crack habit and Adult Swim. YMMV.

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prog December 11 2006, 00:54:50 UTC
In my Waterville days I was able to flip between the History Channel, Sci Fi Channel, and Comedy Central and just let it whatever was on wash over me while I worked at the computer. But that's no longer the case.

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jtroutman December 11 2006, 01:24:03 UTC
I have not had cable TV since 1998 or so. Just the 4 basic channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, and public TV)

When I travel, and stay in a hotel room, I am both frightened and enthralled by the programming on all of the channels. I usually stay up way too late, watching 3 or 4 shows at the same time, for hours and hours. it is horrible.

if I had cable TV, i would probably watch 30 hours a week of TV, drooling the whole time.

DVD boxed sets are available for the things I must watch, and I have purchased a few episodes on iTunes. I have also said for years that "the Internet is my TiVo". Bittorrent and years of having multi-megabit connectivity have spoiled me.

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prog December 11 2006, 01:33:09 UTC
I have hundreds of channels and I don't watch any of them. I don't know which situation is worse.

I feel like a fool for dumping thousands of dollars into this over the years. Sigh. Well, it can end here.

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rikchik December 11 2006, 02:24:40 UTC
We have no broadcast television at all. I get my news from NPR and the internet, and I just finished watching episode 16 of the 2nd season of Lost. (I watched way too much TV in college, didn't get one when I graduated in 1995, and haven't looked back.)

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chocorisu December 11 2006, 03:14:43 UTC
Yeah, cable is barely watchable, there's so much advertising. And $60/mo is pretty much a season's worth of DVDs of whatever you like, per month.

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