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Remember when cable cost $18 a month and there were no commercials?
#21
For anyone out there with a Comcast DVR, there's a code (I can't remember it, of course) that lets you program an unused button with a 30-sec skip feature. It's a life saver, and unless i'm bored, I rarely watch anything "live", I'll give it a 15-20 minute head start and just skip through all the commercials.
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#22
I can remember when cable tv was channels 2-13. Most stations signed off by 1am. Paul Harvey would have the last word on one of the channels.

Funny thing was, he looked older than dirt back then.

TV sucks except for an occasional series. I hate all the reality crap.
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#23
Well, having never paid for cable...I have no idea what the price is. But I hear so many people complain about it that it keeps me away. I can get what I want off the web now anyway. And, there are about 5 or so good OTA channels.

But I DO remember when I would pay over $120 per month on long distance phone calls to my sweetheart, having a long-distance relationship.Now, we don't even spend $50 a year going out to the movies.
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#24
I remember when MTV played music. I believe that MTV now stands for Moron TV.
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#25
i'm a bit behind the curve here as i'm still using vhs. rarely watch live tv. i'm getting a tivo soon, though. last year, as the lifetime subscription deal was ending, my brother made a deal with me that i could have the tivo/lifetime he just bought since Tivo was coming out with one for HDTV. i would pay him half the cost and gain possession when the new model came out.

well, ff to last fall when the HDTV Tivo was released with a near $1000 price tag. my brother's not that crazy. i let him alone through the winter but last week i told him his deal with the devil a year ago had come due and he needed to bring me the T!

poor guy. don't know how he'll survive with only the one remaining Tivo AND a Comcast DVR...
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#26
hey, I get along fine with my 4 VCRs. Never paid more than $10 for one at a garage sale. I did buy my JVC S-VHS decks new, but they are for business jobs.
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#27
Hey, OTA is still free.
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#28
The 5000 series ReplayTVs had a genuine commercial skip that was around 85% effective. The 55xx series have the same feature but not automated. You just press the right arrow at the beginning of a commercial and it skips to the end. Same 85% reliability. The Series 3 TiVo I just bought doesn't have anything like that but you can hack the button that moves you to the end of a recording to do a 30 second skip by entering a simple key combination. (ReplayTV also has a 30 second skip button)
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#29
I remember when HBO wasn't even on a whole day, and it was one movie, over and over and over...


Oh wait - that's radio

POMTL!!

When my dad brought home our first TV, 21" (I think) B&W Olympia, my brother said "Look! The radio can see!!"

I wasn't old enough to see the humor, but I knew darn well that was no radio.
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