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Re:Are all the MS Zunes dying? by jerf on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @09:29PM (#416151)
My wife and I are just about to cancel our cable in favor of Netflix (both DVD and streaming) + the odd Bittorrent to fill in the gaps while TV gets its act together. Saving $50 a month pays back an XBox 360 pretty quick (plus I asked for cash this Christmas to defray this expense).

I've been gunning to cancel cable for about two years now, without blowing a wad to do it (ideally I want to come out ahead within a year); early adopters who don't want to spend a ton should start looking at what they actually use the TV for, consider what they watch and where they can find it, and start running the math. Now if I could just get some sort of decent fiber-based internet...

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Re:Are all the MS Zunes dying? by mattmaroon on Thursday January 01, 2009 @04:52AM (#416349)
You won't miss cable unless you're a sports fan. The Stanley Cup finals are pretty much the only time I'll find myself looking for somewhere to watch live TV.

I don't even bother with Netflix. You can download any new releases, often before you can find the DVDs (especially during Oscar season, when all of those screeners end up leaked) and full seasons of any TV shows. You do usually miss out on the commentary though if you're into that.

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Re:Are all the MS Zunes dying? by jerf on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:18PM (#417022)
At the risk of sounding like a quaint, out-of-touch old man, I would actually prefer that it be at least mostly fully legal. If everybody freeloads, nobody makes Futurama or Pixar movies. As much as I believe in, love, and participate in open source software, I believe the forces that enable open source software scale poorly to other fields.
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