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keesan
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Television
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May 1 18:38 UTC 2002 |
When I was growing up we had one BW TV in the living room. How many TVs do
people have now, what size, portability, color, and where are they located.
Do you have antenna, cable, satellite dish, other services from the cable
company such as internet or music? How many VCRs and where? DVD players or
laserdisc players? (Did I miss a video format?). Do members of your
household watch during meals? Do they watch together? If so how do you
choose the program? Can you watch two programs on one set at one time?
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jep
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response 1 of 36:
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May 1 18:55 UTC 2002 |
I have two TVs; 25" in the living room, 13" in my bedroom. Each has a
VCR. I have digital cable TV through AT&T Broadband, and I think I
have a couple of indoor antennas. No movie services, no music
services, none of that.
The TV is very rarely on during mealtimes, but my son and I did have
hot dogs while a baseball game was on recently. I never turn the TV on
for anything but sports. My son doesn't think of the TV at all, which
seems good to me.
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keesan
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response 2 of 36:
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May 1 19:01 UTC 2002 |
We have no TVs and approximately six working VCRs two of which are hooked up
to a special sort of computer monitor (color - but amber or green TTL also
works, I think). We watched the Olympics a few years ago on a VCR with a
tuner. You need the pre-electronic tuners to get the weak stations.
Jim keeps finding or being given working TVs which he gives away. He has a
couple of not-working-at- the-moment 12V VCPs which he hopes to fix for a
friend with a solar system. We could have free cable service if we wanted
to hook up to the wire outside the window for which the upstairs neighbors
are paying, and which the cable company cut when the third apartment dropped
service (while leaving the Y connector).
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glenda
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response 3 of 36:
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May 1 19:25 UTC 2002 |
We have one 25" color TV, hooked to digital cable basic service. It lives
on the buffet in the dining room at the moment (that is where my mother-in-law
had it as only had distance vision, she watched it from the living room).
As soon as the roof is patched (main leak is in living room) we will move it,
it will ultimately go in the basement (we are finishing it to be the
teen/media/craft/party/family pit).
We have one VCR which probably needs a head alignment. The kittens will
insist on using the height of the VCR ontop the TV to reach the windows and
keep knocking it down behind the buffet. Last time we rescued it it wouldn't
play.
We each have our own computer (STeve has three the greedy guy :-), each
computer has a DVD player. We have a membership to Netflix for DVD rental.
I actively watch very little TV during the week, a bit more during the
weekends, especially when taking classes. I can see it from my desk but
rarely even notice what is on (being the oldest of 6 kids I learned to tune
out anything I didn't want/need to hear at a very young age). I have been
known to turn it on to provide background noise as I sometimes find it hard
to study without having something to tune out.
If the kids are around it is usually on. Damon likes movies or uses it for
his Playstation. Staci likes the music video channels. Nari likes Cartoon
Network or Nickelodeon. STeve watches CNN. We often turn it to the Food
channel, Discovery, TLC, History or one of the PBS channels when not actively
doing something else.
I keep forgetting that digital cable has several music channels, but usually
don't use music as a background noise anyway.
Other than specific favorite shows (which we seem to agree on) we negotiate
what is watched.
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scott
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response 4 of 36:
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May 1 19:42 UTC 2002 |
One 27" TV in the living room, and my old 13" got moved to the kitchen as a
result. One VCR (feeding both) and one DVD player.
No cable, just a big antenna, a rotor, and a hilltop location. I get 4
different Canadian channels. :)
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blaise
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response 5 of 36:
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May 1 19:50 UTC 2002 |
Two. One 20" TV/VCR connected to a DVD player, a separate VCR, and digital
cable in the living room (the TV is mono, so audio is routed through the
stereo system); one 9" TV/VCP connected to basic cable in the guest bedroom.
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md
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response 6 of 36:
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May 1 20:45 UTC 2002 |
Six: one in the livingroom, our in our bedroom, one in each of the
kids' rooms, one in the bar/lounge and one in the fitness room. All
but the last have cable, and all the ones with cable have basic digital
except the one in the livingroom, which has a cable box and a premium
package of some kind. All have VCRs and two (livingroom and
bar/lounge) also have DVD players. The bar/lounge one also has SNES,
N64 and Game Cube connected to it. The cable, the three games, the VCR
and the DVD player were added one by one, so there's a tangle of cables
and switch boxes when you look underneath, which my son installed and
seems to understand. (We also have four computers, which I suspect is
low for this crowd.)
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md
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response 7 of 36:
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May 1 20:51 UTC 2002 |
[Also five printers, three scanners, two fax machines and a shredder,
plus a little Iomega Zip Drive that I move from place to place.]
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slynne
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response 8 of 36:
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May 1 21:17 UTC 2002 |
There are three TV's in my house. My roommate has a 19" upstairs with
an antenna. In the 'den' I have a 19" TV with a VCR and a DVD player
attached to it. That TV also has basic analog cable. I have a 13" TV
and a VCR in my bedroom that also is connected to the basic cable.
I am thinking about getting a larger TV for the 'den' If I do that, I
will clean out my basement so I can put a stationary bike down there
and I will put the old 19" TV down there with a cable connection so I
can ride the bike and watch TV.
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oval
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response 9 of 36:
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May 1 22:13 UTC 2002 |
DVD's are watched on my laptop. laptop is moved into bedroom and hooked up
to the stereo. one BW portable tv/no cable, which i turn on when i'm on the
computer for news (on right now watching BBC Worldnews) and a few shows i
like. monitor is about 3"x4".
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keesan
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response 10 of 36:
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May 1 23:30 UTC 2002 |
What do analog and digital cable TV cost?
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oval
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response 11 of 36:
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May 1 23:57 UTC 2002 |
the costs are endless..
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gelinas
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response 12 of 36:
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May 2 01:00 UTC 2002 |
One 25- or 27-inch color TV (I forget its actually size). Cable, no premium
channels. A VCR, a DVD player, a LaserDisc player (not currently hooked up),
N64 and NCube.
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i
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response 13 of 36:
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May 2 01:53 UTC 2002 |
My apartment rent includes free basic cable. I have zero TV's, VCR's,
DVD players, etc. by choice.
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bru
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response 14 of 36:
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May 2 02:53 UTC 2002 |
We have three TV's. A 24 inch attached to the cable, an old 25 inch attached
to a computer game, and a black and white portable with a three inch screen.
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jep
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response 15 of 36:
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May 2 03:23 UTC 2002 |
My digital cable service costs $47.50 per month.
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jaklumen
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response 16 of 36:
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May 2 11:40 UTC 2002 |
one 19" TV, one hifi VCR. No cable. Can't afford it. Don't
especially want it-- we can watch it when we visit my in-laws.
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flem
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response 17 of 36:
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May 2 13:49 UTC 2002 |
Ahhh, I think I begin to understand. Here's my theory: Sindi is a secret
agent of some foreign power (possibly communist, most likely alien) planning
an invasion in the near future. She is preparing a massive inventory of all
the crap in our houses so that they'll know who to hit first when the invasion
starts. They need all of our crap for raw materials for their alien weapons,
which is why Sindi stores so much crap in her back yard. Kiwanis is clearly
designed to be transformed into their command center. It all makes sense to
me now.
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gull
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response 18 of 36:
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May 2 13:55 UTC 2002 |
Re #17: My god, you're right! Clearly they've also been influencing me with
brain waves, causing me to fill my apartment with other useless junk they
can later harvest!
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buddy
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response 19 of 36:
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May 2 13:56 UTC 2002 |
Okay i have one 20" color television (toshiba) which is hooked up for cable
(basic) and a VCR (toshiba) that i paid for myself which are hooked up in my
room. I also have an RCA stereo system (it was a little expensive but it is
totally worth it) i also paid for the stereo myself.
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anderyn
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response 20 of 36:
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May 2 14:11 UTC 2002 |
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keesan
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response 21 of 36:
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May 2 14:37 UTC 2002 |
Re 'crap' - what will the aliens be making out of all those bicycles?
I am glad to hear there is one other person in the world without a TV -
Walter, how do you waste your time?
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slynne
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response 22 of 36:
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May 2 14:48 UTC 2002 |
I think my cable bill runs around $40 a month for analog cable. I think
Comcast's digital cable is around $60-$70 but I am not sure.
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brighn
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response 23 of 36:
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May 2 15:11 UTC 2002 |
TVs: 33 or 35 or so in the living room, hooked up to the stereo (for audio),
with digital cable, a DVD/VCR combo, and an XBox. 17" in the kitchen, 17" in
the basement, both hooked to the cable (with the system set up so we could
watch three different channels, if we want).
Hmm... maybe the one in the living room is only 27" or so. I really don't
remember. I just remember it was so big I could barely carry it, which I
didn't think about until I was trying to get it out of the car (Val's mom's
SUV, because we couldn't get it into our own car... that should have been a
clue, but I had a rare Homerian "Oooooo... donuts..." moment at the Circuit
City).
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slynne
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response 24 of 36:
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May 2 15:57 UTC 2002 |
OH for a minute I thought you meant that you had 33 or 35 TVs in your
living room!
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