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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (69075)	9/24/2007 12:34:41 AM
From: HerbVic	Respond to of 213177

but i find more and more i am just watching movies, to the point where i feel i am wasting my money on satellite. Not to beat a dead horse, but I do completely empathize. As far as surfing cable with the remote, I use the favorites list, which skips about 60 to 70% of the offerings of BASIC, no frills, HD [sometimes], digital cable. They only offer 8 HD channels, and of those only 2 are always HD. It's a poor garden of entertainment. The only thing that makes it work for me is the DVR's 'record programs' list that harvests the best fruit for me. The DVR is a Cable Co. supplied Motorola dual tuner job. I never watch commercials anymore. When a commercial comes on while I'm watching live feed, I'll put it into pause then jump to the other tuner and surf for awhile. When that tuner runs into a commercial, it goes into pause while I flip back to the previous tuner and start FF through the commercial. It has so spoiled me to skipping commercials, that without it, I have no patience to watch TV at all. In fact, I find most commercials to be completely insulting now. Most of them talk to you like you and 10 million other viewers are complete idiots. My brother has satellite TV and I find it almost too cumbersome to use. Too much junk! No organization. No DVR in his case. I think the Apple TV has a place in there somewhere. But, it doesn't seem to be fully implemented yet. In other words, it seems to be ahead of its time. Once the media giants get used to the idea of coining IP as digital packets without restrictive packaging, Apple TV and the market for its content will flourish. Right now, center stage is taken by HDTV with its analog to the DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray. We consumers are being asked to pony up and bend over for too much of a you know what, in order to get high definition content that is crippled by digital IP restrictions. I'd like to get an HD player of some kind, because I truly enjoy shows in the HD format, and I'd love to collect my favorites in it. As it stands now, I'll wait and see what shakes out.