As most of you know, I have a long standing hate\/hate relationship with TV.<\/p>\n
However, because Kayti likes it, and because there’s only one TV station that can be received with a antenna in our neck of the woods, I subscribed to Cox digital cable. (It was $7 more than basic analog, and offered perks such as HDTV programming.. they upsold me nicely)<\/p>\n
It also comes with plain old analog cable, so I cabled up Kayti’s TV set to it and mostly forgot it.. the box with the HDTV\/digital tuner has just been sitting in the living room with five million other boxes.<\/p>\n
Until tonight – when circumstances made it desirable to be able to record cable while away. I unpacked the HDTV tuner and cabled it up to my PC via a USB HDTV tuner widget, and turned it on.. and..<\/p>\n
Holy COW that’s a lot of channels.<\/p>\n
I spotted about six movies I might like to watch in the first page of the program guide. Even the public access channel was running something interesting.. footage of a blues concert at Fashon Island..<\/p>\n
My hatred of TV kind of got kicked in the teeth. Granted, there are still all those annoying commercials – but, in the age of the DVR, no one needs to actually *watch* those.. (why do you *think* I hooked it up to my computer? ;-))<\/p>\n
Now if only I could figure out what channel MTV is on..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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