[PLUG] MythTV on the small and cheap.

[Michael Robinson]

Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) wrote:

>>Between porn 49 and there's no way that that is superboy 32, 
>>why watch tv
>>at all?
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>My kids and I like to watch Scooby-Doo, The Munsters and H.R. Puffinstuff. With MythTV recording the shows and cutting out the commercials I have to put up with much less commercial influence on the kids, which is great for everyone. They don't have to whine about things we are not going to go out and buy and I don't have to listen to it.
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>>than a 500k dsl line.  The biggest problem with television 
>>today is not even
>>being able to watch the news without worry of porn stories or 
>>steamy ads.  
>>The news is really awful about showing pictures and even worse about
>>hype, especially channel 8.  It was bad enough to get Cialis ads in my
>>inbox, now there is a tv ad advertising it.  I don't watch 
>>any TV, not even
>>pornTrek.
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>Unless you consider Three's Company to be porn (which you might, after all Jack does pretend to be gay in front of Mr. Roper), there really isn't any porn on basic cable TV. I haven't seen any porn related news since Boogie Nights was released in the theaters, which by the way was a great flick, especially if you like porn.
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>-Rob A
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Why are UPN 49, WB32, and Fox 12 becoming so degraded?  Most cable and 
satellite television sources in my experience don't give their customers 
choice of
programming.  If they charge you exorbitently for it, it's really not 
worth it.  I'd like to see more useful stations.  How about a station 
devoted to how
to's for Linux administrators?  So many people are looking for 
information on how to do the same things, it could be a really nice 
service.  The other thing that
bothers me about the media today is that it hasn't diversified enough. 
 There is a small ethnic slice in most programming it seems.  The 
tendency in sitcoms
seems to be toward liberal and egalitarian value systems.  It's not just 
what is shown that's sad, it's the attitudes displayed which are in some 
ways worse.
I bet the islamic world would view us more favorably if we'd stop 
producing so much offensive programming.  Cleaner programming at home 
would make
it easier to win the peace abroad by improving our reputation.

     --  Michael C. Robinson