baineschile
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When the 3-4pm MATLOCK is a blank screen!!! Hopefully, the eyesight is still good enough where they notice.
Sorry, a bit insensitive. But...how many people that eat the bob evans early bird special come to this site...lets just all remind our grandparents. |
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keyboard5684
join:2001-08-01
Youngsville, PA
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| My Grandma has had Satellite for 2 years now.
It took 3 years to convince her it was far better for her than the KA band big satellite dishes (the ones you had to move to the satellite to watch whatever channel you needed). Before that she had an antenna.
Yes, take care of your Grandparents/parents and get them a dish (Directv preferably, it is better!) Really folks, it is up to us to do these things for them, they do not know about a lot of changes or care.
My Grandma would download one thing a week, "prayer requests" and stuff for church she needed. Took forever (on dial-up of course) but she could not see paying the difference. I payed for verizon DSL for her, the lower package, dry loop. She does not know what it is or care but she knows she does not have to wait 30 minutes and deal with dropped calls, etc.
So, again, get out there and do a senior a favor. |
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baineschile
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Sterling Heights, MI | Or a local cable company...where they dont have to learn a new remote, which might as well be quantam mechanics to them. WHATS A GUIDE BUTTON?!!?!? |
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Marduk
join:2004-09-05
West Chester, PA
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I barely watch TV anymore. Nothing but crap, reruns, clutter, and commercials.
DTV, is just another excuse for the cable companies to find another reason to charge more, or add another fee, or find another way to pump commercials into your brain.
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.
Sure the picture is terrific! When it works. At least with analog, you can pick up the football game half-assed with static and garbled audio. With DTV, it's going to be a black screen. |
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rebus9
join:2002-03-26
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| 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. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
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What do you expect?
Remember, we're talking about the folks that cruise the left lane of the freeway at 50 mph, all the while with their turn-sgnal blinkers on. 
The scary thing is, thanks to ARRP lobbyists, they're still allowed to drive, in most states without any additional testing. Like the 80 year-old senile relic that ran a red light and hit me.
Even scarier is that they're still allowed to vote.
Those sleazy local TV neporters that do the evening human interest stories (you know, the ones about the sad family with the kitten that got eaten by the neighbor's pit bull) must be salivating. I'm sure they're all set to do a bunch of stories in February about all the depressed Depends wearers who can't watch Lawrence Welk on PBS anymore, and can't figure out why. |
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Redwood Valley, CA
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| said by PDXPLT :The scary thing is, thanks to ARRP lobbyists, they're still allowed to drive, in most states without any additional testing. Like the 80 year-old senile relic that ran a red light and hit me. Even scarier is that they're still allowed to vote. Those sleazy local TV neporters that do the evening human interest stories (you know, the ones about the sad family with the kitten that got eaten by the neighbor's pit bull) must be salivating. I'm sure they're all set to do a bunch of stories in February about all the depressed Depends wearers who can't watch Lawrence Welk on PBS anymore, and can't figure out why. I hope you never get old, you have some nasty come-uppins coming your way.
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wentlanc
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join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | reply to PDXPLT
Still allowed to vote?! They are still allowed to run for Congress, and even worse, the Presidency!!
cw |
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contsole
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join:2003-12-30
Bloomfield, CT
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said by PDXPLT :Even scarier is that they're still allowed to vote. I'd rather have a senior vote than some snot nosed teenager that just came from a Rock-the-Vote rally and has his head full of nonsense about the gov't holding their hand from cradle to grave. |
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