30 March, 2008
I Blame Ronald D. Moore and David Eick for This
The grand experiment is over. After 4-1/2 years, I have cable TV hooked up in my apartment again. I realized that there was just no way I was going to be able to wait until Battlestar Galactica's fourth and final season came out on DVD and hope I could find them online somewhere in the meantime. So, since basic cable (with the Sci-Fi channel) is paid for by the landlord, I went down and got a converter box (my c.1983/4 television isn't cable-ready).
It was a real trip trying to get everything set up so that I could watch TV or DVDs without having to unhook the TV from one box and hook it back up to another. As it turns out, my VCR is the central character in pulling that all together. Until I, in desperation, hooked the converter box to the VCR and the VCR to the RF Modulator (needed to get the DVD to work), I was at a complete and frustrating loss. I still can't get the VCR to work in video mode (so I still can't change the clock on it), but I can easily enough go between cable and DVD, so I'm calling it good.
I watched my first hockey game in two or three years (I still hate the NY Rangers). And I'm not going to be available on Friday nights for the next few months. After 4-1/2 years, there STILL isn't much good on TV and the commercials have gotten even worse. So perhaps the experiment is only partially over, since the TV still pretty much stays off. I'm still happier listening to NPR or my iTunes library and reading.
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~~ victoria on 5:22 PM ~~ 2 comments
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Yay! Now we can dish about Project Runway!
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Tim, at
7:33 PM
When's it on? And what channel? (I may not have it on my basic cable...)
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victoria, at
7:24 AM