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Title: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 18, 2009, 10:37:23 PM
somehow my dvr missed tonight's episode of lost, so i looked around and found it was already posted to the newsgroups

if shows get uploaded to the internet this quickly, fuck a bunch of time warner
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 18, 2009, 10:38:44 PM
I got rid of cable a while ago.  I now download like 4 gigs a day worth of stuff. 
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 18, 2009, 10:40:20 PM
i only watch three shows anyway
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 18, 2009, 10:42:01 PM
I got rid of cable a while ago.  I now download like 4 gigs a day worth of stuff. 

that's like 6 hours of SD content.  ??? ???
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: huckleberry on February 18, 2009, 10:42:47 PM
Just got in another tv tuner card so I could do that very thing....all the shit I want to watch I can get over the air and record it with my computer or just use newsgroups and torrents.

My wife is the tv watcher in the family.  I watch Lost religiously, other shit if I happen to be home....maybe 3 or 4 hours a week at most.  Loves me some movies though.  

 :bow Netflix :bow2
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: TVC15 on February 18, 2009, 10:43:19 PM
what about sbtb, roseanne, and full house?
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 18, 2009, 10:43:55 PM
I got rid of cable a while ago.  I now download like 4 gigs a day worth of stuff. 

that's like 6 hours of SD content.  ??? ???

ya it's a lot. 
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 18, 2009, 10:44:18 PM
Why don't you just get an HD antenna and get a bunch of free HD content?
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 18, 2009, 10:55:22 PM
yeah, i dunno why i've kept cable this long

although in wilmington you'll get about six channels without cable, and half those are pbs
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 18, 2009, 10:59:00 PM
I got rid of cable a while ago.  I now download like 4 gigs a day worth of stuff. 

that's like 6 hours of SD content.  ??? ???

ya it's a lot. 
especially when it's probably all anime  :-X
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 18, 2009, 11:03:16 PM
yeah, i dunno why i've kept cable this long

although in wilmington you'll get about six channels without cable, and half those are pbs

I love cable and all the crap channels that come with it. But seriously, if you don't watch very much, just get an HD antenna.
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 18, 2009, 11:03:31 PM
Three gigs of Naruto and one gig of Naruto hentai.
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 18, 2009, 11:04:33 PM
no the only anime I've been watching is naruto which is a half hour every week.  It's mostly documentaries and lecture series with a few movies.  I've been watching Wild China all day.  It's really fucking beautiful.  I wish I could live in china and farm rice. 
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 18, 2009, 11:05:07 PM
Oh, Arvie, Naruto is not a rice farmer!
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 18, 2009, 11:05:52 PM
I'd be hokage  of the rice farm village and people would offer up their virgin daughters to learn my awesome shadow clone jujitsu. 

Three gigs of Naruto and one gig of Naruto hentai.

That's the right ration.  The hentai is for something to do while watching the two gigs of filler that come with the one gig of real naruto. 
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 18, 2009, 11:07:20 PM
I think it's honestly a crime that bandwidth is being wasted on Naruto.  Imagine how much more bandwidth we'd have for worthy needs, like Buffy House episodes, if we could have Comcast and/or Time Warner murder Arvie.
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 18, 2009, 11:10:08 PM
Wilco I'm your opponent!

*makes funny hand motion

futon rasengan!

cigarillo.

The raw of the new ep is up but not the subs   :'( :'( :'( I wish I were dead.   :'(
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 18, 2009, 11:10:44 PM
leper

arvie

ban

malek
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: patrickula on February 18, 2009, 11:17:27 PM
I get the cheapest cable because it's just as cheap, or cheaper, than if I got the cost added if I got internet service unbundled.  I couldn't get an antenna signal where the TV is anyway.
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: demi on February 18, 2009, 11:25:23 PM
My cable is part of a package so meh
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Eric P on February 18, 2009, 11:28:01 PM
My cable is part of a package so meh

muckhole's package?
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: demi on February 18, 2009, 11:30:06 PM
It could be yours
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 19, 2009, 02:35:01 AM
I spend way too much on cable and internet with Comcast, but I love it. Unfortunately, Verizon Fios isn't available in the city of Seattle. You can get it in the suburbs, but not in the city itself thanks to Qwest.
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: CHOW CHOW on March 07, 2009, 07:03:00 PM
do it, just cancel it

there are like 3 or 4 good shows on television now and you can download all of them and stream them to your ps3/360 and watch in high-def about an hour after it airs

24
lost
dexter
true blood
chuck

that's about it

unless you like watching mtv and espn, cable tv is pointless nowadays. 

discovery channel is the only one that i kinda miss because i liked channel-surfing and landing on some random footage of two orangutans fornicating
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 07, 2009, 07:31:04 PM
I don't have cable TV nor do any stations come in.

Netflix for my film needs, the internet for my news needs.
Title: Re: I think I might get rid of cable TV
Post by: Dickie Dee on March 07, 2009, 08:30:11 PM
I could just as easily get the 3 shows I actually care about enough to even know when they come on through the webs, but then what would I do without my 7 hours of the Food channel and HGTV a day? Huh?