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Yeah... but then you have to live in Albuquerque... I don't know if good TV is worth THAT price. /s

But seriously...

I don't mind TV on a schedule SOMETIMES (Walking Dead for example was worth catching on Sunday Night... with the following Talking Dead.)

But a majority of the time, I'm doing this or that and want to catch something on my on time.

I'm not 100% against commercials, personally... but the extreme to which they went - both on TV and Online - has pushed me to be almost militantly AdBlock'ish.

If Netflix (and similar) can bring sanity back to it, all the better.



>> But a majority of the time, I'm doing this or that and want to catch something on my on time.

That's what a DVR is for. They don't actually make anything off the shelf for OTA in the US, but a bit of software and a DTV peripheral on a computer can provide this. I hear TiVo is still around, but not very popular.


TiVo is still around and handles OTA just fine, as I understand it. (I use mine with cable and never watch anything live.)




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