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    "title": "No More TV For A While",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2009-06-25 12:45:14 UTC",
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    "html": "<p>After months of having 100+ channels with nothing to watch most of the time*, I realized my main use of TV was to have something in the background as I settled down for bed.  At the same time, it was a big time-sink, because I would turn it on, flip through 100+ channels to find nothing, and then flip through 100+ channels again to see if anything new had appeared (usually not), and then again, etc.</p>\n<p>So, to save $60/month and recover about 2 hours/day, I suspended my DirecTV service and bought a digital antenna for emergency viewing.  (By \"emergency\" I mean weather emergencies.)  I can still watch series episodes by web or DVD, but that has a well-defined beginning and endpoint (as opposed to turning on the TV and just surfing around looking for something).</p>\n<p>I've been off TV for about 2 weeks now; we'll see how much longer it lasts. ;-)</p>\n<p>(* Notable exceptions: AMC and TCM movie marathons like James Bond, Dirty Harry, old sci-fi, etc.  I'm a notorious C-SPAN devotee but I can get that over the web.)<strong></strong></p>\n"
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