It’s been slow going, but we’ve cleared out enough of the living room to set out the coffee table, making the couch usable, and set up the TV and DVD player.
One thing we’re doing, since we hope to find a place to buy within a few months, is not getting cable for the time being. Sure, we were only spending $15/month for the broadcast channels, but all our shows are going (or have gone) on hiatus for the summer. Why pay for something we aren’t going to use? When I explain this plan, people are often very confused. The AT&T tech actually started to say, “Well, you could watch…” Why? I don’t watch TV just to have the TV on. If I’m interested in a show, I turn it on. If I’m not, I turn it off. If I’m bored, I’d rather pick up something from my backlog of books or comics, or go to the internet.
After I set up the TV today, we popped in our DVD of Raiders of the Lost Ark. We’d gone out to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last night with andrea_wot, wayens and gasean, which was fun (both the hanging out with friends and the movie), and we found ourselves quoting the new film to each other at relevant points in the original.
lol that’s great. Skull meets ark…
The pub was also fun. I mean the food was generous and the atmosphere was… pubbish(?) ;p. Thanks for the rec!
And cable, I’ve lived without it for a couple years now, you’ll survive. ;p I live off of DVDs now. (Darth Vader breath.) er For better or for worse.
Now, internet, that’s quite another matter. I woke up to a power outage this morning and first thing that inconvenienced me besides the clock was the internet connection having gone kaput. A quick modem reset did the trick but your entry made me realize internet has become a utility possibly even more so than gas and water. (Electricity is incumbent with internet so it’s included. lol)
Nah, I’d put indoor plumbing above Internet in importance. But yeah, internet was a high enough priority that I scheduled the installation for the first available appointment — which turned out to be Sunday morning the day after we moved. (This did mean staying up until midnight after moving boxes around all day so we could get the computers set up and be able to test the internet connection, but it was worth it.)
I just don’t understand the “What? You don’t have cable? What kind of weirdo are you?” reaction we keep getting. DVDs, people! It’s all about building a library and renting from Netflix. Though I’m beginning to wonder about the value of building a library, since everything’s going to shift from DVD to Blu-Ray over the next few years. I’m at the point where I’m not sure I want to buy new DVDs, but would rather wait until we’ve got a Blu-Ray player and buy that instead. I mostly skipped the VHS-to-DVD transition, since I only had a handful of pre-recorded tapes to start with.
Yeah get with the times, people! ;p Cable is soooo yesteryear. hehe
hmm I’d say keep eyes on the special features, packaging, and price. Think it’s worth keeping in your library for that oombination? Then buy. Otherwise wait to see if a better version comes around. 🙂
Like I waited until the 3 Indy films came out individually with fancy packaging *and* additional features. And a free comic book. ;p Before buying. At only $13 then, it was a good buy that would last me a while. (I still don’t like Blu-Ray packaging that much just yet, though the Lost packaging was impressive enough that I hope all future Blu-Ray set manufacturers would take note, so by the time I get into Blu, I can be assured I’d be proud to have them on the shelf. :>)