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cdybedahlA couple of weeks ago, we finally got rid of our TV. We've been thinking about it for quite some time, since we never watch actual broadcast television. Or, well, practically never. We watched some news on 11 September 2001, and I think I watched something last year when I had the flu. But I had a fever of about 40°C, so my memory of that is not good. I vaguely recall something about lawyers hunting teeth in the Arctic...
Anyway, we got rid of it. Instead, we bought a cheapish 32" widescreen LCD monitor with piss-poor resolution (1365x768 pixels) and weird inputs (HDMI and stuff). It does great for watching DVDs and computer-carried stuff.
The weird part here is that there are quite a few TV series that we'd love to watch and pay for. But as things stand today, the companies making those seems entirely uninterested in letting us give them money. So we don't. Or, well, occasionally they get something when we buy stuff on DVD, years after the show in question got canceled because it didn't go over with the American average viewer. But that's not much, and more importantly it doesn't help to keep the show in production. I so wish I could've paid for Firefly and Pushing Daisies (for example) while they were still living shows. And no, watching stuff on broadcast TV is not an option. The rigid time schedule, frequent preemptions for sports and other crap plus mutilating the show with advertisements make that a total no-go.
In short: TV companies? Please stop being stupid wankers, get out of the 20th century and create a way for us to give you money.
Anyway, we got rid of it. Instead, we bought a cheapish 32" widescreen LCD monitor with piss-poor resolution (1365x768 pixels) and weird inputs (HDMI and stuff). It does great for watching DVDs and computer-carried stuff.
The weird part here is that there are quite a few TV series that we'd love to watch and pay for. But as things stand today, the companies making those seems entirely uninterested in letting us give them money. So we don't. Or, well, occasionally they get something when we buy stuff on DVD, years after the show in question got canceled because it didn't go over with the American average viewer. But that's not much, and more importantly it doesn't help to keep the show in production. I so wish I could've paid for Firefly and Pushing Daisies (for example) while they were still living shows. And no, watching stuff on broadcast TV is not an option. The rigid time schedule, frequent preemptions for sports and other crap plus mutilating the show with advertisements make that a total no-go.
In short: TV companies? Please stop being stupid wankers, get out of the 20th century and create a way for us to give you money.
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Date: 2010-06-08 07:00 am (UTC)(And yes, I would like to be able to buy some series, but lacking a US debit/cc card, I'm not allowed.)