"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> I only rarely see them now. I don't have any of that DVR stuff (never >> thought it made sense to buy a device, as opposed to a service, on a >> subscription model), so not only do I get the increasingly irritating and >> patronizing commercials (I don't normally have a problem with >> commercials, just the irritating and patronizing ones, which are most of >> them these days), but I also get those ads that stations have injected >> *over-top* of the shows themselves as a backlash against DVRs (Which I >> don't even have! And I have to be punished anyway!) So I've just said >> "fuck them, and fuck playing fair, since they obviously aren't" and I >> only watch shows on library DVDs now, or if the libraries either don't >> have it or don't have it unscratched then downlaod (but not Hulu - fuck >> web browsers, fuck flash video, and fuck "TV on a PC"). So usually the >> only times I do see ads is when a roomate watches TV. > > Me very satisfied Netflix customer.
For videos and music, north-eastern Ohio's library systems are absolutely phenomenal. And unless you're *ridiculously* irresponsible, the late fees are an order of magnitude cheaper than any netflix subscription. If I lived anywhere else, I would probably be a Netflix user. (But unfortunately, these libraries are horrible for non-fiction books, unless all you ever want is "For Dummies"-level stuff, or if you just happen to be paying thousands of dollars to a college, or work for a college - *then* they give you the *cough* "privilege" of using the OhioLINK library system which is great for non-fiction books. But frankly, an enterprise-level MSDN subscription would probably be cheaper (literally))
