On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:16:14 -0700 Ant <ANTant@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| On 4/27/2008 11:16 PM PT, Wes Newell typed:
|
|> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:01:45 -0700, NewMan wrote:
|>
|>> "Jer" <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
|>> news:lIKdnZhqge8DhojVnZ2dnUVZ_rbinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|>>> NewMan wrote:
|>>>>> Why pay for TV?
|>>>>> =======================
|>>>>
|>>>> Because there's lot's of good stuff on DirecTV, and NOTHING on
|>>>> broadcast.
|>>>
|>>> There's plenty of stuff on broadcast TV. My issue is whether it
|>>> qualifies as entertainment, and for me, most of it don't.
|>>>
|>>> --
|>>> jer
|>>> email reply - I am not a 'ten'
|>>
|>> Other than Dr. Who on the local PBS and maybe occasionally Smallville,
|>> name something.
|>
|> I record about 200 shows during a 2 week period. Smallville is one. Dr.
|> Who isn't. Other than news type shows, here's a brief list of some of
my
|> favorites.
|>
|> Survivor
|> Big Brother
|> All the Law and Order shows.
|> House
|> Bones
|> Cold Case
|> Without a Trace
|> All the CSI shows.
|> Medium
|> NCIS
|> Hell's Kitchen
|> Shark
|> American Idol
|> Criminal Minds
|> Boston Legal
|> Supernatural
|> Ghost Whisperer
|> Numb3rs
|> Moonlight
|> Lots of prime time game shows with Duel being the best IMO.
|>
|> And that's just a partial list of the 200+ shows I've got scheduled to
|> record during the next 13 days. I get about 40 channels here OTA. I
only
|> watch 10 of them. That's 240 hours of programming a day from which to
pick
|> from. If you can't find at least 6 hours of shows you enjoy out of
that....
|> And most are in HD. Cable/sat? No thanks, don't need it.
|
| Wow, you watch all that?
No, he just records it, dubs it down to Betamax, and ritually burns it in
a big
bonfire every month :-)
BTW, I did find a few shows in his list that I might watch at times (Law
and
Order, Cold Case, Without a Trace, CSI). People that know me expected me
to
like Numb3rs, but I just didn't.
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