[lbo-talk] TV without TiVo (in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos')

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed Oct 6 11:13:42 PDT 2004


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> The mystery is that a lot of people (some of whom have long work
> hours and children) appear to have time to watch TV shows regularly.
> Regardless of artistic excellence (or lack thereof) of the content of
> a particular show, watching TV, with all the commercials that come
> with it, takes too much time for me. Is it that everyone has a TiVo
> now, fast-forwarding through commercials, and I'm the only one here
> who doesn't???

The Sopranos is on HBO (no commercial interruptions). Also, you can use Netflix (rent the DVDs). That's how I watch it, because I don't have much interest in other HBO programming (e.g., the incessant boxing matches). You don't need Tivo.

Miles



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