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Old 01-21-2010, 11:08 AM   #24
Greg Anos
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
I chose "I watch TV less than 1 hour a month" but that isn't really right: I watch exactly 0 (zero) minutes of TV every month. OTOH, my wife insists that we have TV so she can watch a little before retiring for the night. So we access the crapware called entertainment via FiOS.

Although I have nothing good to say about TV except that it proves that there is plenty of waste in the wasteland, I will say that I am very pleased with FiOS, which we have for TV, Internet, and telephone. In the 2 years we have had it, it has never been down.
I agree about FIOS. Quality service...

I just upgraded my Over The Air (OTA = broadcast) antenna. The operation was a success! I can now get all the major networks here via antenna. (Complete with tinfoil on the antenna. Just like when I was a kid.) My brother still want cable TV, but I suspect we'll drop it in a couple of years.

Truthfully, we only watch the local sporting franchises and the stockmarket channel anyway.

For entertainment, we watch my extensive video library....

Here's an interesting back-of-the-envelop calculation. Take the amount you spend on premium TV per month, and calculate how many TV episodes you can buy for that money. Here in North Dallas, it runs around $50 (USD) I can buy a season block for many shows for around the same money. That's 15 to 22 hours of entertainment (sic) per month. You won't be on the cutting edge, (which is very important to some people), but over a number of years, you'll have entertainment coming out of your ears...

(Classic conversation with my brother. "What you you want me to put on?" "I don't know, you've got too many choices." "Pick a category, movie, TV show, concert." "Gee, don't know..." "Pick!!!" .....)

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