I've got to do my "business" or get off the pot. That's for sure. You know you're in a bad way when you go to someone's house and marvel at their TV and you struggle to walk away from viewing a commercial.

But, I will say that not having a bunch of garbage trickle arcoss our screen 24/7 has been good for my girls. I think it's a good thing that they aren't constantly watching all the current kid and teen programs that show young people mouthing off and being disrespectful to adults. Gosh, we wouldn't want them to turn out like me. I've noticed that they sure do a lot of reading and playing instead of sitting in front of the tube.

I do have to admit that I do miss the Discovery and History channels. The news you ask? Nope. With all the garbage reporting on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, & FOX I can proudly say I don't miss that junk at all.

I do think I'm seeing a dish in my future. Anyways, thanks for the taunt. It got it's target.

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Ain't nothin' good is for free... is it? I just refuse to go back to Comcast after being cable free for 2 1/2 years and after the horrendous way they jacked me around. But then, I've been TV free for that same 2 1/2 years. I've just refused to have some yahoo installer nail a post and hang a dish on my roof and staple a wire up and down the side of my house. Not to mention a half dozen boxes through out the house.

I've been holding out for IPTV to come along. Dog-gone-it! I thought AT&T / Bellsouth would have rolled it out by now in our area. I gotta big ole 62" Top-O-The-Line Plasma HDTV TV hanging up in front of me and 42 incher in my bedroom that's useless at this point.

Talk about frustrating....

I was hoping to feed a signal from a computer to the TV, but I guess that's not looking good at this point.

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You’ll have to do it yourself.

Heck, if you can fix an affluent pump in the middle of the night in a thunderstorm in silk boxers, this will be a walk in the park.

Currently IPTV is a myth. The infrastructure needed to support it is almost non-existent in cities never mind out in the country where you live. Unless by some fluke of nature you have a fiber line just outside your house don’t hold your breath for IPTV.

If you want those plasmas working before the Smithsonian has one on display go for the satellite. But do the wiring yourself.

The newer boxes are HDTV and have mutable ‘tuners’ that support POP. The nice thing about them is that the remote controls are FM not IR and both the remote and receiver are channel adjustable so they wont conflict with one another. That means you put the box(s) in the basement and never have to look at it/them.

I currently have Dish Network. I tried Comcast for all of two days before I told them to come and pick it up at the curb before it got rained on.

Most of the Dish Network stuff comes with a TeVo built in. Mine will record 100% digital for both ‘tuners’ for up to 100 hours.

I pay for the monthly service on mine as I have no desire to purchase that kind of equipment and have it go south as has happened a few times.

Circuit City and Best Buy are the only places I know of that sell the units. Both of them have such outstanding customer service records that if the units were to malfunction I’d have to pay twice what I purchased the units for and wait 6 months to get them back with something still wrong, no thanks. Dish just FedX’s me another unit, I plug it in and call them. Kids are happy again within a day.

The tricky part is getting the cable run correctly. Do you happen to know anybody that does that type of work? If so, you’re in like Flint. If you don’t want the dish bolted to your house, bolt it to a post somewhere out in the back yard. Rent a ditch witch and burry the cable up to the house. (Snake it in some PVC)

Just remember to run four cables from the post to your house. The dishes have up to four transceivers each so you can add on whenever you feel the need.

Since you’ve already had cable once, the inside wiring is already done.

All told it will take you an afternoon tops.

Hell, now that I think about it, you’re better off without the idiot boxes.

Never mind.

Thanks Bad. Your suggestions are helpful. I suppose my wait for IPTV should come to an end before those TV's decompose and fall off the wall. Unless...

Unless by some fluke of nature you have a fiber line just outside your house don’t hold your breath for OPT.

This reminds me of my first apartment back in 79. I was broke and couldn't afford a telephone so I tapped into the fiber cable than ran about 6' past my window on the 2nd story of the dump I rented. OK..so it wasn't a fiber cable. Well..... I rigged up this 6' pole with a hook on it you see. Then I would raise my window, reach out and snag the aerial phone line, pull it to my window. Then I hooked the cable behind a nail that was driven into the window sill. Then I would take my telephone which had two alligator clips attached to the phone cord. These clips would then be attached to the two bare copper wires that I had stripped back from the aerial cable. Guess what? I had a telephone. The only problem was that no one could call me because, guess what again? I didn't know the telephone number of the line I had tapped in to. Plus, I would imagine that the person who actually owned that circuit probably wouldn't have appreciated receiving phone calls from someone asking if Git was there. LOL! But at least I could make an outgoing call.

Ok.. So I don't have a fiber lit up outside my window..... soooo... I suppose the Dish in my future. Oh Brother....

Thanks for the advice and insight. I'm going to start checking into it I suppose. Maybe there's a local professional "guy" who does this on his own. I don't want a teenager some company just hired that just learned how to use a staple gun, a drill, and has a pair of wire strippers.

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