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Why do I need sign a cable TV contract? On a paper? Requesting some people to make a draft and fetch me it with a decoder, 3 day before I can actually watch anything? What's a decoder anyway? Why do I need to BUY it? Even though I already have a brand new TV? What do you mean a GOOD decoder is 2-3 times more expensive? And it is forever bound to a certain cable provider? Why, it's just some generic hardware? Why is it SD? Do you aware that we have FullHD stuff for a decade already? Oh, you do have HD? 2-4 channels out of 130? And my decoder doesn't apply? What, even GOOD decoder doesn't apply? So I need this card which is more expensive than GOOD decoder? And card only fits about 20% TVs on the market?

Etc. etc. The list goes on indefinitely...

I'm waiting for the articles on the low bitrate/high resolution video. Going to be the whole MP3 vs FLAC all over again.

If Netflix had a 'random' button it would be their greatest innovation ever.

Sometimes I end up picking or asking my girlfriend for random numbers just to shuffle TNG episodes, since that's how I'm used to seeing it.