I've sold my TV

Purchase unreal tournament 2004.

Watch out!

I'm behind the corner with the flak cannon (my favourite)

DS

OTT - The Best of Top GEar

Campers will taste the shield gun.

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Originally posted by Nick Lees:
Ludwig,

I'm dead chuffed for you - selling your TV opens up all sorts of exciting avenues.

In your position I'd definitely start my new life by buying another one.

nick.lees at btinternet.com

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Ludwig,

English humour. Doncha just luv it?

Nick,

I love it!

Regards,

JonR

Gary - EVE Online

See in the next century

Andrew Randle
contactgain.com - the business opportunity community

DSL's been ordered. Cable (TV) to be cancelled in the morning.

Now.. To Wi-Fi or not to Wi-Fi? And Airport Express. And Netgear all-in-one DSL modem, router, firewall, access point. Oh me oh my the thought of Googling from the toilet.

Comments?

Thanks.

PS- Nick, are you still bitter about the Ten Years After assessment?

You could install the washing machine in place of the TV. It's quite surprising how involving some wash programs can be.

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... the thought of Googling from the toilet.

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for instructions or inspiration?

Dan

Yes, god bless the DG824M plus an iPAQ, and realising the dream of listening to tinny music whilst browsing the web in the bath. Like garlic bread, it's the future, live the dream!

I haven't had a TV since March, and it's been like detox for the brain. I can honestly say that there is not a single programme that I have been particularly sorry to miss.

I should say that I still have a DVD player and a VCR, which I run through my PC, so I haven't been cleansing myself to the point of colonic irrigation. Although funnily enough I watch less and less videos and DVDs as the weeks go by.

What has replaced TV?
- Radio 4 (about 10%)
- Books (about 10%)
- Blissful silence (about 20%)
- Rediscovering my record collection (about 20%)
- Going out more and having more parties (about 40%)

Now I'm getting close to the stage where my partner and I may move in together, and I have a feeling that their TV - which I really have no wish to acquire - could be an interesting issue.

Didn't someone say that TV was the greatest pro-marriage invention - because it allows couples to spend time together without talking to each other? That's exactly what I'd rather avoid...

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Originally posted by Dan M:
for instructions or inspiration?

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For performing "essential toilet reading" searches, of course.

When I cancelled cable today the rep asked "Were you unhappy with your service?". "No, I was unhappy with TV". There was silence, then she offered "I've neverrr heard that one before... tee hee hee!!!"

The Netgear all-in-one jobby and PC card have been ordered. The DSL subscription "starter kit" has been shipped*. I'm excited.

(* I hope I don't need this girly MSN-Verizon broadband software they're sending. But I hope I win the iPod Mini for subscribing!)

I havent had a TV for about a year now. I don't miss it at all. I admit I am on the internet a lot more which is probably just as bad

How do you avoid getting into trouble with the TV licensing authorities if you still have TV receiving equipment?

My understanding would be that if you still have TV sets around, perhaps used as monitors for DVDs and so on, you would need to disable the receiving part (the RF stages etc). A VCR usually has a receiving part so that would need to be disabled as well.

So far so good. I read a newspaper story a year or two ago about someone who had done just that. He disabled the receiving part of his TV and his VCR. He still got fined because it was claimed that the VCR could be used to play tapes which someone else had recorded off air.

Have any of the TV non-viewers looked into the legal position?

I have no intention of watching TV (now that my ex-wife, the TV viewer, is going) but I also have no intention of getting rid of the video equipment I have. I can deal with disabling the receiving parts of the TVs and VCRs but am concerned that may not be enough.

Regards,

Paul.

Ludwig old Chap,
One good example of what being without TV, radio and newspapers can bring is a
line uttered by a flm character portrayed by the famous actress and daily piss
taker, or rather taker of the piss, Mia Farrow, ie, is she regularly drank her
own urine for health purposes (tastes good dunnit Mick ?).


"But who on earth is this Pearl Harbour person ! What does she do for a living, and what are her people like ?"


Fritz Von Wasitworthit ?

TV Licence Fines

The TV Licence is unfair and unnecessary, and the logic behind its imposition is muddled at best. Discuss.

I've not yet been visited by the dreaded inspectors (do they exist except in press releases? The idea of 'detector vans' always made me giggle). But my plan, if they do come, is merely to hide behind the door until they go away - perhaps barking occasionally in a rabid sort of way.

Think it'll work?

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So far so good. I read a newspaper story a year or two ago about someone who had done just that. He disabled the receiving part of his TV and his VCR. He still got fined because it was claimed that the VCR could be used to play tapes which someone else had recorded off air.

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I doubt that they could get away with that. The same would apply to a DVD player now that recordable ones are readily available. But just to clarify the legal situation I've just wrote the following letter to the licensing folk:

My TV license expires at the end of October. Due to my growing dissatisfaction with TV I do not intend to renew my license.

I will be returning the TV to the rental company and my digital box to the cable company. My Video recorder will either be sold or stored at another location.

I do have a DVD player (not recordable) on my PC, which I might use to watch the occasional movie but I assume that once the above has been carried out I will no longer need a licence. To ensure that I will not be breaking the law I would be grateful if you could confirm this.


I let you know when they reply.

Steve B

Ludders,

I got DSL about 6 months ago and I'm very pleased with it. Instead of ordering the bundled MSN package, I just got the DSL service and then went out and found my own ISP. It cost the same, but I don't have to deal with the whole MSN crap. I just rent the modem ($1/month), and use a wireless router/firewall jobby to connect my emac and provide wifi for my ibook. Seems to work very well, and the emac allows me to share the printer across the wireless network.

I'm seriously thinking of ditching my land line in favor of voice over IP, but more research is in order.

So does this mean you will no longer be contributing to the quirky thread, or will you be watching dvd on the pc? btw, what did you get for a pc?

cheers

Dan

Dan,

The Verizon site states that the MSN software isn't Mac ready, so I don't think that was an option for you.

But I'm confused- I thought the MSN bit was only the "portal", and Verizon was the ISP as well (since they offer dial-up ISP already). Will I really be required to sort through USA Todayish MSN content and to get a Passport login?

PS- No new computer yet. I decided to use my notebook 'til it craps. Then get an iBook or Thinkpad.

AFAIK, the phone company sells you the line, but ISPs buy bandwidth from the phone company and provide a gateway (portal?) to the internet (which you then pay for seperately). My ISP also provides webspace, email accounts, and access to webmail. I don't know how its set up in thin-crust Seattle -- could be different.

cheers,

Dan

p.s. get a mac!

Macs are cool.

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Hello Steve B,

I shall be interested to know what they say.

Regards,

Paul.

Congratulations!

Campaign against TV

http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_front.asp

That little white dot means something.
It means something really heavy.
It means there's no more tele.

Steve B