Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I call television "the ad billboard in your living room".  
> That's EXACTLY what television has become.  I turned mine off for the 
> last time in 1992 and never got another one.  I'm not going to PAY some 
> company to deliver advertising to me....i.e. cable TV.

Get a TIVO.  Problem solved.

I just got Verizon FIOS with a DVR.  Now, if we are watching TV and a 
commercial comes on, we say "What the hell are we doing!?" and we switch 
to the DVR.

No longer do we ever plonk ourselves on the couch at the predetermined 
hour to see a show - we watch whatever we want, whenever we want.

No longer do we select the least boring show currently available. Instead,

we have a large library of the best shows on TV, along with a dozen movies

or so.

Regular TV is dead to us.

 
> I believe the American public is so starved for entertainment free of 
> adverts is the reason for YouTube's fantastic success. 

Naw.  That's not the reason.


> It has also kept usenet hopping.

Usenet is dying.

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