rebus9
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| reply to Marduk
Re: They will be aware...
said by Marduk  :I barely watch TV anymore. Nothing but crap, reruns, clutter, and commercials. Man, I'm glad I am not the only one saying this. Except for some PBS programming for my daughter (and the occasional watching of This Old House by my wife and I on PBS) we have been 100% television-free for ~5 years. I couldn't name 2 prime time shows if my life depended on it. It is quite liberating. We get all our news online, and our entertainment from DVDs (movies, old TV shows, etc). TV totally blows, and there's no way I'm spending 50 bucks a month to have "100 channels of nothing to watch" piped into a TV that's never on anyway.
said by Marduk :Oh yeah and, Digital either works, or it does not work. At least with analog there might be enough data (audio) to inform you that the infrastructure of the United States has been damaged and will give you clear info on what to do in a real emergency. Again, thank you for showing me I'm not alone. I used the two $40 coupons to buy converter boxes (after reading all the reviews that gushed over how wonderful TV is in digital). Plugged them in.... and went from 7 available channels down to 2. The missing 5 were spotty reception (a bit snowy on occasion) but were certainly watchable enough. Now they show up with frozen pixelated screens, if they come in at all, and no audio.
Digital TV is progress? NOT in our case. I'd take our current analog situation over digital any day. |
