Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

Larry wrote:
> Hasn't that become true of every other piece of entertainment hardware 
> you own?  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.

Back in the '70s, my parents would turn on the TV around 5:30 in the 
early evening and kept it on until Johnny Carson was over.

I called it "video wallpaper". I haven't watched commercial TV or cable
in over twenty years.

As for TiVo...I bet its all a matter of time before the RIAA comes up
with a tactic prohibiting its use.