I’ve got ‘em. You know I do. This is after reading the PC World article. What fun. Sam and I have talked a lot about dropping TV and having only Internet. We get our movies through NetFlix, and I’ve started Hulu-ing. Of course, I don’t actively watch TV that much anymore. I like to catch the Daily Show, but now that Scrubs is over I don’t have any programs I feel I must see. I can catch most of the Daily Show online. Same with South Park.
Not that it matters, since the Internet is freaking expensive no matter what. I’ve been checking into DSL and all that bidness, and I’m not very happy with my options. I have enough problems with Sudden Link. Most of them are summed up in this Penny Arcade comic. We are paying for this garbage. The Irony is felt especially in the Sudden Link commercials featuring the “gunk.” If SL is so speedy, why am I not viewing my Netflix movies at full resolution? I have seen the miracle of instant viewing in high-def in other places.
As far as TV, what stinketh most is there are very few options. Satellite? Bah. The ISP of satellite smells. Antenna? Do they still make those? So, we’re somewhat mired in the mediocrity of modern cable. Which is asinine in many ways. Of the several channels we get, we watch around ten. If only we could pay for ten. I know that’s something that would have to be solved outside the cable company, since it’s the providers of the channels to the cable folk, but it would be nice.
Armed with decent laptops, I honestly think Sam and I could live a life without TV or Internet being paid for by us. There’s the library we can frequent, as well as a bevy of coffee shops. Although, I have been to several that charge one for Wi-Fi use. Interent seems the more necessary, since it solves the need for TV. So, if I could find a nice, inexpensive ISP in Stillwater, I would work hard to grab a hold of that. But I doubt it will happen.
