I watch sports for the most part. The only series I try not to miss is
Boston Legal. It's brilliantly written and has a stellar cast. But I
believe this will be its last season. So I may watch only sports:-).
Paul
On Nov 27, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Nov 26, 2008, at 7:45 PM, John Francis wrote:
Rather an exaggeration. There are ways to watch TV that don't
involve
watching a show at the time of broadcast. They're not free, of
course
(except for shows streamed over the web from the major networks, but
those are even worse - the ads come more frequently, and you can't
skip
over them). I haven't relied on live TV for decades - nowadays I
have
a couple of TiVos, but before that I used to timewshift using VCRs.
And with the TiVos it's loss free - the recorded signal is bit-for-
bit
identical to the original signal when recording from a digital source
(digital cable, over-the-air digital TV, or digital satellite
service).
Netflix offer streaming video, although not for much current stuff.
But
if you like to watch old TV shows it's a great adjunct to DVD rental;
you don't need to decide what you want to watch a day or two in
advance.
And if you don't like watching on your computer there are ways to
stream
it to your TV - the stand-alone Roku unit, and now the Xbox. Both
the
PS3 and newer TiVo boxes will be getting the capability this month.
And
there are other providers besides Netflix, although I'm not sure how
many of those will work to devices other than a computer.
This presumes that you a) want to watch television, b) feel there's
enough value there to pay for the equipment, and c) are willing to
invest the time to use it.
It starts falling apart for me at "a)". There's only a very few
shows that I have any interest in (and *none* of them are sitcoms or
so-called reality shows).
Godfrey
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