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post #16 of 21
8/21/08 at 7:00pm
He's implying you cancel your current cable and use someone else's.
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post #17 of 21
8/21/08 at 8:22pm
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I feel uncomfortable asking my friends to attach a slingbox to their cable. I've been paying about $40/mo for cable this year and finally realized that I only watch a few channels.

Seems like such a waste. Most of the time, I just have it on just to have noise in my place. I don't have an HDTV so I can't try the aerial thing.
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post #18 of 21
8/21/08 at 10:10pm
CNN: Cable News Network

well it's pretty simple. CNN is cable, you can't have it without cable. If you must have it, you got to have cable in some way.


maybe read a book? I didn't have a TV for a couple of years, it was no big deal.
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post #19 of 21
8/23/08 at 11:41am
If you're just going to watch those two channels,
why not read them online instead?
Unless you like to just listen in the background
while getting ready or something.
Maybe get a Slingbox or something and hook it up at
your parents' place or something. I know options would be limited
(as in you'd need somewhere to connect it that has cable service + internet)
but just throwing it out there.
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post #20 of 21
8/25/08 at 10:40pm
Maybe give NPR a try if you just want to hear some news stories.
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post #21 of 21
8/25/08 at 11:57pm
We let our cable subscription lapse. We won't miss it. I never hardly watched it anyway.

We will probably re-subscribe next February when the last installment of Battlestar comes out, then let it go permanently.

A few weeks ago, I was selected to be part of a Nilsen TV survey. I had to track all the TV watching I did in a week.

A week went by, and I hadn't watched a single minute. I felt kind of bad about this because of the survey, but it just confirmed that I was wasting my $$ on my cable subscription.
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