The Cost of Television, part 2

[okosut]

A long long long time ago, when I was but a first year graduate student, still uncertain about what the hell I was doing in Ithaca and whether I'd made a huge mistake, my 7th LiveJournal post ever was called The Cost of Television. It was about my journey to get television on my computer, and how the product I bought was pretty wretched. Oh, how

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[cmouse]

I'm quite excited.

Sayid's death also felt right for me in the same way. Though I'm not sure how sideways-Sayid isn't also in a really bad position.

[okosut]

It's true, though arrested for murder >> dead.

[lokiect]

(lucky for me, I'm good at not reading the spoilery stuff ;9 I've gone from somewhere in season 2 to the 3rd episode of season 6 since... february? I'll call it boyfriend replacement, and now that his defense happened, who knows how much further I'll manage to get

[okosut]

Yeah, I didn't have cable last fall. And now I'm paying for it just so I can watch Lost (and the Oscars). It's totally silly. I can get HD versions of the episodes for $2.99 each, which would be way less than I pay for cable. But they come out the next day. I couldn't handle that.

Random for a while had a computer set with a one or two TV tuners and MythTV. I believe it worked pretty consistently, but that may have been because there were a bunch of tech people around it all the time to keep it running. I don't understand why it seems to be so hard. Can't they make software that just works?

[lokiect]

I've just gone on the assumption that tv tuner cards are underfunded or underdeveloped because most people who would pay for them (at least, for a long time when computers were not up to the task) would just get cable anyways.