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balls187
03/03/09

In reply to Time Warner Ditches Cable Co, Pledges TV Shows Everywhere
Ayo.

I robs Drug Dealers.
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Guy Whitey Corngood
03/03/09

In reply to Time Warner Ditches Cable Co, Pledges TV Shows Everywhere
why you gotta be startin' shit with the gadget-lovin' Eastbound and Down fans?! I admit to worrying that after The Foot Fist Way, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express and now this, Danny McBride seems to have only one character. But it's still a funny character and the show is a nice comedy yin to FOTC's yang.
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Wilson Rothman
03/03/09

@Guy_Whitey_Corngood: Well, I am a fan of Danny McBride in Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express and—you forgot one—Hot Rod (arguably his finest work). But yeah, that one character just can't hold my sympathies for much longer, douche that he is. He's a much better sidekick. I started watching Foot Fist Way and hit the stop button. Stupid stuff.
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ScottRose
03/03/09

In reply to Time Warner Ditches Cable Co, Pledges TV Shows Everywhere
Sounds good to me. Even better when I can just connect my HTPC (DVR) to the internets and not the cables.

Ah, but interoperability and adoption by other providers is gonna be a while off.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
03/03/09

@ScottRose: b-but... what if you have Cable Internets? 0_o;
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ScottRose
03/03/09

@DeusExMach:

Ah, but then only my cable modem need connect to my cables.. and I don't have to spend my day fighting internally whether to get the clear-QAM tuners, stick with the analog capture card + cable boxes and IR transmitters, or the component H.264 boxes that aren't compatible with MCE.
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Imagism
03/03/09

In reply to Time Warner Ditches Cable Co, Pledges TV Shows Everywhere
So... what this means is basically you would be able to stream tv on your computer and phone?

I just want to make the distinction here that they don't mean that you'd be able to access all their content on your computer at any given time (a la sidereel or torrent)
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ScottRose
03/03/09

@Imagism:

It's gotta be streaming. I think if it were a full-blown content-on-demand service then it would have been mentioned specifically.
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robot-shmobot
03/03/09

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if we pay for it, does that mean there's no commercials?!
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darway
03/03/09

@robot-shmobot: Excellent question! I don't mind watching a few short commercials on Hulu (or something similar) because I'm not opening up my wallet to watch the shows. But, if I'm a paying for the online service, then I'd better have extremely few/no commercials, great video quality and an easy-to-use interface.

Granted, TV subscribers pay and they still have a ton of commercials, so I have a sinking feeling that we're dreaming here.
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ScottRose
03/03/09

@DeeW:

Agreed. I think the gist is that we'd get exactly the same crap we get on our cable TV pipe, but on computers and phones as well.

@robot-shmobot:

And you, sir, should be using a DVR to begin with! Commercials-shmercials.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
03/03/09

@robot-shmobot: My parents once told me that way back in the day, Cable TV, being a pay service, meant exactly that: No Commercials. Of course, this was WAY back in the past... like the late 70's, I think... Eventually the Cable companies decided "Hey... I bet we can get these suckers to Pay us... to show them commercials! YAY, Capitalism!" I mean... it's not like you HAD to have cable. There was still "free" ad-supported TV.

...boy, the way Glen Miller played...
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Monty
03/03/09

@DeusExMach: I am not certain all cable TV channels were ever "commercial free" since, as I recall, they always had the major networks. That said, CNN and the rest used to be sans commercials until they (Ted Turner, I believe) realized that you could add commercials and still collect a fee from the cable operators. It was not really the cable companies that pulled that (after all, they are just the "pipe", right?), but the content creators (channels) that realized there was nothing stopping them from adding commercials and having two sources of revenue.
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infmom
02/01/09

In reply to Netflix Survey Asks Customers About Streaming HBO Shows for $10
No. No way, no how. Have you seen what HBO plays? Drivel. Junk. Lather, rinse, repeat. That's why we dropped all premium channels years ago and will never pay for them again. For every "Rome" or "Sopranos" there are three dozen movies that should have gone directly to DVD and from there directly into the dollar bin at the swap meet.

I can stream movies from Netflix any time I want, already, and I can choose what to see. Best of all possible worlds.
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Tamar Weinberg
02/01/09

In reply to Netflix Survey Asks Customers About Streaming HBO Shows for $10
No. But Netflix is still offering something of a deal here, considering that my cable company offers HBO for an additional $11.95/month.

HBO has never been worth it in my opinion.
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weatherman
02/01/09

In reply to Netflix Survey Asks Customers About Streaming HBO Shows for $10
I'm in favor, but the only problem is that I can't kill my cable just yet, and since HBO is a marginal amount on that (basically free with the package) there's no reason for me to double pay, especially since the cable version of HBO now comes with 6-8 HD channels plus on-demand.
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